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High speed rail gains from air

B Perren

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This paper reviews the advances in the management of high-speed rail services across Europe. The best-known high-speed services are Thalys (Paris-Brussels-Cologne/Amsterdam) and Eurostar (London-Paris/Brussels). The advantages of rail travel over short-haul air travel are highlighted, and include no passport or customs check for passengers travelling between countries signed up to the Schengen Agreement (this includes France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany). The author concludes that high-speed rail travel is more successful in France than in the UK due to the longer distances between major conurbations in France allowing trains to run at an average speed of 137 mph.

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Key concepts: Train, Transport engineering, High speed train, Passenger transport, Rail freight transport, Air travel, Engineering, Telecommunications