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Saturday, September 16, 2006
  Virgin Trains

Virgin Trains
Originally uploaded by Start Creative.
This is a Virgin Train. It gives the impression of speed. This is misleading (see post immediately below) Its time keeping is impressive mainly due to its very leisurely time table for its very leisurely progress from SW to NE stopping at stations which Dr Beeching forgot to close as day becomes night and vice versa.
Very restful. Very environmentally friendly. But quicker by horse.
Dick Turpin only stopped riding from London to York when GNER got the rail franchise.
 
Comments:
To start with you show a pendalino photo which is only used for the west coast services only. Cross country only use Voyagers but still reach the max speed of 125MPH when allowed to, on there way to the NE, only to be stopped by everyone else as they cross several other TOC's like GNER who deffinatly take 1st slot !
 
Sorry about that but it is all I could find on Flickr. 125 mph would be very scary on Virgin. 32mph over the Berwick Bridge is bad enough. Anyhow I only need GNER where I mostly go so 1st slot is fine by me
 
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