Re: Queen Opens High Speed Rail Link - 14 years after the French....

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Re: Queen Opens High Speed Rail Link - 14 years after the French....

Posted on: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 20:04:38 +0100

On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:55:52 -0700, Hatunen wrote:

>On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:48:59 +0100, Martin
>wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:44:17 -0700, Hatunen wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:36:00 GMT, jim@jibbering.com (Jim Ley)
>>>wrote:
>
>>>>But it's a lot of money and pretty needless disruption, to shave a few
>>>>minutes off of a journey frequented by a small minority of people -
>>>>I'm rather surprised it was at all economically viable.
>>>
>>>Who said it was economically viable?
>>
>>Eurostar makes a profit, the tunnel runs at a gigantic loss.
>
>Maybe Eurostar needs to pay more to use the tunnel.

and then nobody would make a profit.
--

Martin

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