Re: Köln-Paris? Thalys train....
Lets see if Bojo does actually reopen ALL the beeching closures or chokes at the cost, going to have a hard problem with that locally, the railway station and depot was demolished and turned into a private housing estate in the 90s and the bridge demolished soon after (quite why they built private houses there eludes me as it backs onto a large industrial estate) and much of the route further north has been sold off or built over either way. Said estate blockades the link between north and south as the line runs east to join the southbound mainline so short of bull dozing the housing estate or laying a LOT of track its not going to happen, not helped by the local council "forgetting" to include restoring the rail line in a succesful bid to central govt for funding (read virtual blank cheque type funding deal). Then again the salaried officers are nearly ALL PHB wannabes and virtually all the elected members are well north of 70 (some well past 80) and those who aren't are either wet behind the ears and just out of university with the last being a radical "men are to blame for everything" type feminist in addition to being a failed nurse turned "crystal healer" with puritanical prude (1910s type) morals (i.e. all forms of sex are "dirty and exploitative") and to cap it off thinks everyone should wear second hand clothes. Wasting council bandwidth touting some newspaper report about it being the "fastest growing sector in clothing" while ignoring that selling an extra jacket a week is likely to double some second hand clothes shops sales figures, that "vintage" (and quality vintage not random second hand tat) is a passing fad likely driving the minor uptick. (apologies for that monster last sentence)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
