HIGH SPEED 2 THE NORTHERN HUB DINNER
will be extremely reliable. We hope to reach world-class levels in terms of reliability.”
tickets will cost more – she said: “No, the current approach is that the fares will be broadly the same as on the existing railway. There’s a good reason for that: we will be investing in a massive addition to capacity and we want to make sure the the existing railway and freeing up capacity there.
“It doesn’t really make sense to try to price for everyone,” she added, when asked if the emphasis was on business-people.
Talking to RTM at the end of the night, Chris Knight, business development manager at gone very well: the panel answered some fairly tough questions and covered some interesting points. Clearly rolling stock is a key issue that everyone in the north is concerned about, and it’s obvious that our industry is aware of that. It’s something we needed to address. We’ve had a fun night here, sharing our table with the guys from FirstGroup, with whom we’ve got a great working relationship.”
reason the company wanted to be involved as a sponsor was “demonstrated by the response of “We’re clearly at a very important stage in the infrastructure development of the country as a whole, and the north in particular, and we here been involved in this event.”
But he joked that they had “an easy time of it” not just the obvious ones: for example, Royal creation of a national cycle route that may
“That’s a good example of something that he said.
The photos over these pages were taken by Peter Alvey of Alvey & Towers. Far more can be found overleaf and online at the RTM Facebook page.
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