I think that's a bit of a naive view.
How likely does that currently look, given that it looks like there won't be 6tph from Euston to the eastern leg or 3tph from Curzon Street that way?
This is great except when it isn't. If I book an advance rail ticket involving more than one train, the chances are that my second train will only be valid with one particular train operator. So if I miss my connection then in practice I can't actually catch the next available train if it has a different operator, I have to wait for the next train that is running by the same operator as the one I missed ( which would be through the fault of the operator of the first train, or whatever made their train late).
So if the operator of my second train runs infrequent services, this could cause quite big delays
So does that mean flights will wait for late trains? If it's only that "connected" tickets will be valid on later flights, then what happens when the next flights is several hours later? Similarly, will a train really wait for a delayed flight? If I sound sceptical it's because I've had too many experiences of arriving on a slightly delayed train, then finding the next train is there, and there is an advertised connection to catch it, but its staff have neither awareness nor care for passengers of the approaching train, their only concern is to get their own train away. These "connections" are all very well in theory, but in practice things can be very different. If it can't work between trains, then please forgive my scepticism about inter-modal connections.
As stated repeatedly, the airlines will do the exact same as what would happen if your inbound flight was delayed. What is so difficult to understand?
I think the poster is thinking 'connection' means something is held. That's largely not been the case on the railway for almost 3 decades now, but in reality never could be nor have been truly a guarantee (no-one would stop the job at New Street because the incoming Edinburgh service was two hours late). What a connection means is that the railway/airline will sort you out - accommodation, onward taxi, whatever is reasonable to fix the problem. When you're delayed on transatlantic flights, they just put you on a different service, even if it means with a different airline.
They get a seat on the next flight to New York.
Exactly.
..... with available capacity.
Thanks, but no I'm not assuming a connection will be held, that really would be expecting too much. My concern is that those who make these proposals often don't experience the realities of when they fail. I had a classic example at Eastleigh when a trespass incident caused the line to be shut for over 3 hours. This meant that the last peak period train ex-London arrived into Eastleigh just before 11pm, into a platform adjacent to a Portsmouth train. Around 40 people wanted to catch this Portsmouth train, but it waited for almost a full minute with its doors locked, and then disappeared into the night with intending passengers left stranded. Now nobody could possibly argue that it had to go without waiting for one extra minute, at this time of late evening for pathing reasons. The fact was that nobody at Eastleigh station was aware of the plight of these passengers.
Presumably the N700S tilts on the Tokaido Shinkansen at 285km/h which is the top speed there and doesn’t tilt at 300km/h on the Sanyo Shinkansen which is the top speed on that section?
If there is space at the platforms a 275m train would work.
OOC can presumably do 12tph which is one every 30 minutes given the relatively long amount of high speed running?
The problem with OOC as a terminus is the constrained track layout at the west end of the station. Only trains using the central platforms (11 & 12) can access the scissors crossover in the station box. Trains using the other four platforms need to run wrong-way along the main approach tunnels to the Victoria Road crossover box.
Surely the points can be changed - or as you say the first part of the tunnels to Euston?
As everyone (including me) appears to be missing your point, any chance you could summarise what it is in one line?
The point is that when "connections" are advertised, all too often they fail in practice.
Okay, but that isn't different between Air-Air connections and Rail-Air connections, and the only way around it would be to only ever travel direct, so that isn't a disadvantage to offering Rail-Air connections as through tickets, as already done succesfully by a range of airlines including KLM, Lufthansa, and Air France.
Don't forget too, that other countries seem to manage better than we do. At building new railways, punctuality, customer care, you name it. Quite sad really.
I don't disagree - there's what _Should_ happen, and what does happen, and they're not always the same. I've had missed connections on last trains at New Street - well handled with a 60 mile onward taxi arranged, it's almost like they do it every day?
Because of the alignment of HS2 there isn't much need to have the trains tilting on the high-speed sections of line. Just the classic WCML route. Alstom might be able to pull it off with some kind of New Pendolino unit where tilt disables above speeds of 250km/h which won't be reached on the classic routes anyway, so we don't really need to look to a Japanese manufacturer for a high-speed tilting train if we needed one at all.
Possibly, but you'd probably need a subfleet for routes like Liverpool where the platforms at Lime Street wouldn't be able to accommodate a 275m fleet. Either that or we'd need to extend the long-distance platforms by about 5m at the bare minimum, which isn't too unreasonable compared to 300m. Since proposing 250m trains though I realised it might not be very well future-proofed, so some modifications or subfleets will definitely be needed.
Punctuality? Have you been to Germany recently?
So your primary concern is whether or not rail-air failure is more likely than air-air failure? Are you not concerned that advertising connections for travellers, and then failing to fulfil them might be an issue?
Yes, and all trains were punctual.
