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If Lockerbie is to be included in the air safety statistics it is only fair to include the 7/7 bombings in the rail statistics..

Errr yes. Road related taxes, VED, fuel duty etc account for over 6 times as much as the total road budget. Railways are a complete rip off. Expensive, dirty, crap service and services, overcrowded, under resourced, and the last thing the industry needs is a distracting and eye wateringly...

Reference london city, its actually a 5.5 degrees glideslope.

It's the railways which are subsidised not the airlines. Government taxation is clobbering non tax payer subsidised industry and customers have no choice but to travel on tax payer subsidised options. ie the railways. So the message from the governement is. If you're unsubsidised...

Although the potential saving of bmi regional's business is welcome news, the shutting down of bmi baby, the breaking up of bmi in total, and the collapse of other UK dmoestic carriers and the struggling of ones that survive is a result of the current and previous governments' ridiculous...

In this brave new world of globalization, aviation is the main channel for business. And just as business is a competition, so is travel. If the UK is not prepared to offer a competitive product to the world of international business then the UK will not compete. The current crop of political...

Well, I think you'll find aircraft are slightly more weight critical than trains.

Etops only applies to twin engine aircraft. It stands for extended twin operations and so the A340 does not have to comply. All aircraft certification is based on the premise of one engine out, or OEI. Therefore an aircraft with more than two engines has a much better test performance as it...

Like another pointless transport project, I am surprised that no one has said it will free up capacity on existing thames crossings.

Interesting responses... first things first, the age old square foot argument about how much landspace the rail line takes up is a complete non starter. It's the area it effects rather than the area it takes up that is critical. And the end result might be 22m wide, but the area of land...

NOnsense by name.... what an apt name... I'm not going to write in words of one syllable... I have no desire to see any more pointless rail lines, steam, or magLev ripped through our precious country side. As to returning back to nature, I fly over the UK all the time and can see lines...

I think a better example of Godwin's Law is that HS2 will provide spare capacity on other lines....

Typical response.. Ignore the main thrust... Perhaps a bit more constructive criticisim of my point might be useful. As i undestand there certainly won't be a connection with HS1, at least not for a great while. As to interchanges... are parkway stations not interchanges, but we don't see...

The point about demand is that it is always changing. If, as many of the doomsayers predict, travelling becomes prohibitively expensive, and localisation begins to re-emerge as a way of life, then long distance travel will wilt considerably. What would happen then to HS2, or the relived...

You couldn't care less but think that unless we do build HS2 our transport infrastructure would remain Victorian??? I sense a little hysteria creeping in. The fact is that the only part of the UK's infrastructure that is victorian, or perhaps better described as sub victorian is the railway...

Frightened? That's quite funny. How can someone be frightened of something that doesn't exist? Or never will. What people like yourself are frightened of is the fact that it won't happen. And I still find it astonishing that people who are pro this still-born white elephant can seriously...

I simply don't see the point of driverless vehicles. Additional cost, complication and potential to go wrong for a very marginal benefit, if at all. What is more likely is automatic tracking of cars, journeys, speeds, locations etc so that big brother will know exactly what we are up to, and...

And in the 2010s we are being told that a new high speed line between London and Birmingham and onwards is going to improve everyone's lives, not blight the landscape, only cost £17 billion, free up capacity on other lines, be a wonderful green mode of transport and drive all cars and planes out...

What is interesting is you ignore the main thrust of my argument and focus in on one small point. As it happens, your question is indicative of the fact that that London is the only starting point on a journey where rail can compete with air. Like many people have pointed out, not all...

Regarding my position, since you choose to analyze it, it is based around two premises. One is that air travel in the UK over long distances is faster, more flexible, more easy to adapt to changing demands, and overall, far less costly to the tax payer than rail. The second is that rail is a...