Why High Speed 2 and Other European Lines Make Fewer Stops than the Shinkansen

At a meeting last week, Borners was asking me why High Speed 2 is designed not to make any stops between London and Birmingham. This distance, about 150 km between Old Oak Common and Birmingham Interchange, would have around 4.5 interstations on the Shinkansen, but in the UK, it runs nonstop. More generally, in Europe […]