Oh dear!
Platform 10 at York today
This slightly strange video has been released by HS2 Limited.
Eye wonders if the odd shape of the passengers' heads points towards trains built in Germany?
UPDATE: This from Rabid Burns...
I notice in the map just before the end that the right hand branch
of the "Y" in Scotland, avoids Edinburgh and crosses the Forth to serve
Fife.
Is this down to Lobbying by Fife Council? Do the good burghers of
Edinburgh know?
I think we should be told!
Good news for the government in the Transport Select Committee's report into the InterCity West Coast fiasco!
We now know that the following is self evidently not the case:
“More than 45 million pounds of public money has been wasted, the department and the United Kingdom have suffered huge reputational damage and the railway industry is left in a state of uncertainty and therefore Ministers in post at the time of this fiasco should consider their position.”
Indeed!
Furthermore the following actions are not required:
“Ministers at the time must take responsibility for their mistakes and misjudgements.”
Quite so.
And how do we know that Hammond, Greening and Villiers should shoulder none of the blame?
Because the following coalition members of the TSC voted against the above paragraphs being included in the final report:
Good to see that the DfT hasn't lost its skill at pretending a pig's ear is a triumph.
In today's press release from the Department on the future of the C2C, FGW, FCC and Southern franchises is the following gem from McLoughlin...
"As always our priority is to ensure these changes will not impact on services or our commitment to improving the railways. Our latest step towards delivering a high-speed rail network which will link many of our major cities by a new fleet of state-of-the-art trains is testament to how we are delivering on that commitment."
Presumably this is ministerial confirmation that the franchising debacle will now also not be resolved until the late 2020s?
UPDATE: This from Chionanthus Virginicus...
Aha - we're going to have "state of the art" trains for HS2 are we?
So we must infer that DfT
Good news for Tim O'Toole and First Group following today's announcement on the Thameslink and Great Western Franchises.
This from the DfT:
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