The speed does cost a lot more because you need far shallower gradients and curves, and therefore much more civil engineering, and slab based track rather than ballast, which is much more expensive. … (View Post)

And, of course, had that been around when the original railways had been proposed a lot of the promoters would have given up. (View Post)

Agree, except the last line. It's not the fact that Brits can't do it and the Spanish and Chinese can. The Chinese do it because they don't give a shit about planning, land rights, the… (View Post)

Well, that's all the Axis powers out of the World Cup now then. (View Post)

Both Panama and the failed colonial power, Scotland, are now out of the World Cup. (View Post)