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Señor Benso

@belebenso

'Parvus error in principio magnus est in fine'

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Señor Benso@belebenso·
The limiting factor on frequency of fast trains between Liverpool and Manchester is **congestion in Manc** rather than the Chat Moss line itself. If #NorthernPowerhouseRail "allows more stopping trains to run", how exactly does that work in central Manchester? #hs2 #SpotTwaddle
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MCheshireAgainstHS2@mcahs2·
This is how the lobbyists win, they get their people into positions of power. Result, mega projects the public never asked for that enrich crony corps. #HS2
Christopher Hope📝@christopherhope

This is an astonishing fact from today’s Sunday Times. At least 224 out of 257 new Labour MPs elected in July 2024 came from either charities or communications/lobbying agencies, or were formerly “political employees”. It explains so much about Labour backbenchers’ priorities.

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Señor Benso@belebenso·
More epic #hs2 bonkers stuff from 'Modern Railways'. Increasing the linespeed from 300 km/h to 330 km/h would reduce capacity, not increase it. #bonkers
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Señor Benso@belebenso·
@philatrail #hs2 twaddle-fest thread starts with the absurd claim that a 125mph alignment would be 'little different' to a 225mph one, and ends with 'a new eight-lane motorway' being the only way of 'providing said transport capacity'. 🤡
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Philip Haigh
Philip Haigh@philatrail·
Good thread from my old mate Andy. If HS2 has a problem then I suggest it’s not with what we’re building but with how we’re building it.
Andy Bowes-Roden = =@AndyRoden1

Loads of #hs2 nonsense over the weekend. Let’s try and put some of it right. 1) opting for much slower - 125mph would have made little if any difference to alignment. Yes, curves could have been tighter, but that would simply have taken the route closer to places…

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Señor Benso@belebenso·
Simon Calder Travel Insider #tip: how to 'defraud the railway' by buying a ticket from Derby to Nottingham, not using it, and claiming a refund minus £5. #GeniusTip available only until Wednesday.
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Señor Benso@belebenso·
Without its 'superlative' speed p1ssing-contest aspect removed, what is the point of #HS2 at all? It's obviously totally unnecessary for 'capacity'. As any perusal of the ORR origin-destination matrix demonstrates.
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Señor Benso@belebenso·
The scope for #hs2 'saving billions' mostly disappeared with the decision for a 400 km/h alignment and the absurd infrastructure, such as porous portals, which emanated from the objective to have the fastest railway in Europe mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/news/porous-po…
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Señor Benso@belebenso·
The March 2026 #hs2 report to Parliament implies there are savings in the "'low billions" from not running trains at 360 km/h, including obviating the need to send them abroad for testing "at that speed". This sounds like baloney.
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Penny Gaines
Penny Gaines@Penny_Gaines·
@belebenso They all seem very keen to blame the Tories, but the original specification, including the speed and the essential route date from Gordon Brown's Labour government.
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Señor Benso@belebenso·
At this stage, actually completing #hs2 phase one is just a face saving exercise. Everything else is gone. It's clearer than ever that the speed is not needed, the capacity is not needed, the railway is not needed.
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Señor Benso@belebenso·
If the government were in any way serious about reducing the costs of #hs2 they would be doing things like 100% cancelling its dedicated rolling stock order. Just get new generation ICWC trains when needed, that could also be used on the phase one rump if/when it is finished.
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Shafiq Ahmed
Shafiq Ahmed@Shafiq_Ahmed·
@GarethDennis @ojngill “It’s no secret that HS2 was originally conceived as a gold-plated project.” They added that it was “needlessly over-speced” 🤣🤣🤣
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Gareth Dennis
Gareth Dennis@GarethDennis·
The incompetence of those now in charge of transport in this country is staggering. This HS2 article is basically fact-free. All of its sourced assertions are bollocks - yet this rubbish is currently further wrecking HS2. thetimes.com/business/compa…
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Señor Benso@belebenso·
As for a linear and granular relationship between the cost of #hs2 and peak linespeed, that seems highly implausible. A lot of the costs were baked in early from the decision for an ultimately 400 km/h alignment.
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Señor Benso@belebenso·
The idea that trains couldn't be tested until #hs2 is 'finished' is somewhat true, the non-highspeed part of the testing could be done in advance at Velim, or somesuch.
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Señor Benso@belebenso·
Today's Sunday Times story on #HS2 claims "every extra 1mph increases the budget by £1 billion" and "the locomotives cannot be tested until the route is finished" (etc).
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