Talk:High-speed rail in the United Kingdom

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[edit] To Do

  • Funding
  • Political process
  • Environmental benefits
  • Effects on demand for domestic air travel
  • Social and regeneration benefits
  • Safety
  • More detail on pros and cons of wheel-on-rail and maglev
  • HSR vs improved local services
  • HSR vs new slower lines
  • Tidy up referrences and citations


I think this is an excellent article. Arce 20:47, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article name - propose "High-speed rail in the United Kingdom"

In my opinion, the article name "UK High Speed Rail" should be changed at the very least because of Wikipedia:Naming conventions#General_conventions whereby the second and subsequent words should not be capitalised (unless a proper noun). Also, to be more grammatically correct, there should be a hyphen between "high" and "speed". Normally, I would just go ahead and do the necessary renaming myself. However, I think an even better name would be "High-speed rail in the United Kingdom" for two reasons:

  1. I have a feeling (but can't prove it) that there might be a policy or convention that "United Kingdom" (and similar) should not be abbreviated to UK in article titles — see Category:United Kingdom.
  2. "High-speed rail in the United Kingdom" would then be consistent with High-speed rail in the United States. (See also Category:High-speed rail.)

If nobody objects in the next few days, I'll go ahead and do the page move. --A bit iffy 21:05, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A few problems with this article

"of PPPs promoted elsewhere." -> unclear what PPP means - the link certainly doesn't help (point-to-point protocol? something about penises?!)

 :-) it actualtl stands for Public-private partnership. I'll make it a wikilink. Tompw 20:14, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

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"Although Virgin teamed up with experienced civil engineering contractors such as Bechtel, their tender was rejected for the reasons outlined above. " -> I can't find any arguments above!

The reason is "[Virgin's bid was] not welcomed by the government, who in the wake of the Hatfield rail crash, were focussed on - as they saw it - getting the rail network back to reliable operations", which is given above the bit you quoted. I've amended it to sayign "the previous section", for extra clarity. Tompw 20:18, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
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