£38.5 billion Hornby tinkering job goes t1ts up

pinno
pinno Posts: 51,196
edited June 2015 in The cake stop
Whilst on the other side of the world:

603 km/h (375 mph) and a 'Stable operating speed of 500 km/h'

...at a cost of £100bn.
seanoconn - gruagach craic!

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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,596
    Meanwhile, H2S carries on regardless.........
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,098
    Meanwhile, H2S carries on regardless.........

    I, along with everyone within a 20-mile radius, was praying yesterday that when they said "£XXBn of upgrades cancelled", it meant HS2 was dead.

    Bu99er.

    It's just a hill. Get over it.
  • symo
    symo Posts: 1,743
    The North loses out.
    So far the government have cost jobs in the UK onshore wind industry, about to cost more in the rail industry. Hmmm what is next.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 25,596
    The North loses out.
    So far the government have cost jobs in the UK onshore wind industry, about to cost more in the rail industry. Hmmm what is next.
    Anything outside London is fair game.
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
    Veronese68 wrote:
    PB is the most sensible person on here.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I did read that the upgrades to existing, Victoria infrastructure are bloody expensive, even compared to 15 minutes less watching the world fly by as you head north
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,939
    Meanwhile, H2S carries on regardless.........

    I, along with everyone within a 20-mile radius, was praying yesterday that when they said "£XXBn of upgrades cancelled", it meant HS2 was dead.

    Bu99er.

    Me too.


    The older I get, the better I was.

  • mamba80
    mamba80 Posts: 5,032
    What the tories have done, is kept the budget the same BUT cut the number of projects, as many have been priced incorrectly and if we carried on, the budget would be out of control - if this is correct, whats wrong with that?

    Meanwhile the great white elephant HS2, carries on..... but for how long?