Cable Forum - View Single Post - New high speed rail link ...is it worth it ?

09-01-2012, 10:35

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

I did manage to find this which indicates its costing france 15billion GBP to lay 1250 miles of high speed track.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009...rail-in-france

So for our 32billion we getting approx 102 miles of track.

I believe there is a fair bit of tunneling to do under the chilterns .But compared to the channel tunnel (9-10 billion) for about 25 miles it seems a little excessive .Unless the cost includes rolling stock and inflation,It would be mad to price the work at todays prices because the job isn't due to start for another 5 yrs and take upto 10yrs to complete .There will also be a lot of enviroment work to do as the area is already designated a "area of outstanding natural beauty"