| In the UK we pride ourselves as being the originators | | | | enable passenger to transfer to or from the express, |
| of railways, our ideas have spread throughout the | | | | stations all the way down the line can make use of |
| world but we are still capable of solving problems for | | | | the service. |
| the rest to follow. | | | | The sprint coach can unload at the next station, turn |
| When thinking about high speed rail we still seem to be | | | | around and run back again to the one it left when the |
| caught up in Victorian ways of doing things. If a train is | | | | express passes in the opposite direction. With radio |
| to pick up passengers en route it has to stop, load and | | | | connection between both vehicles and stations almost |
| unload then proceed. | | | | all problems can be solved such as, running late or |
| A non-stop line from perhaps London to Edinburgh | | | | insufficient room aboard. |
| would be no advantage to those beside the line and | | | | The inhabitants en route can benefit making the |
| be limited to passengers who want to come from and | | | | granting of way leave easier and the profits can be |
| go to only those two cities | | | | vastly improved. You can be sure that the "Health and |
| There must be only a small number of travellers every | | | | Safety" fanatics will object, yet we still travel in motor |
| day. If the train stops at several stations it looses its | | | | vehicles at 60 miles an hour in opposite directions on |
| purpose - high speed. The answer lies in passengers | | | | the same road. These two vehicles will be going in the |
| being loaded and unloaded whilst still at high speed. | | | | same direction on parallel lines. |
| If smaller "sprinting" coaches can run parallel to the | | | | Let us think what can be done, not what can't. |
| speeding train locking together for short periods and | | | | |