16/04/2008 by admin.

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16/04/2008 by admin.

I went to a presentation last night from the excellent Jim Steer who is campaigning for new high speed rail lines. (I have put a link to his latest report on my Horse’s Mouth page).

It put me in mind of the patronising visit of Eurostar officials last year to tell us how much the new St Pancrass was to offer Manchester.

They had the nerve to tell a press conference that passengers could now walk along Euston Road from Euston Station to catch a train to Paris or get a tube one stop….AND THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO CHANGE THE SHAPE OF RAIL TRAVEL IN THE NORTH WEST!!!!!

I began to think I had dreamed two years of my life back in the nineties when I was writing regular stories about when Eurostar from Manchester was going to be launched.

They even hired 40 train crew to begin training, lengthened platforms along the route, and stuck “Le Eurostar habite ici” on the train shed at Longsight.

We got within weeks of the promised launch before suddenly the whole idea became uncommercial.

Open access is due to come in a few years time. Anyone fancy starting a train company?

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