Abstract:Great Britain, with a rail network disadvantaged by half a century of underinvestment, is about to introduce high speed trains. A first project, using tilting trains on the major rail link of the country between London, Manchester and Glasgow, is based on a deep modernisation of the existing infrastructures. The other project consists in building a new line between London and the Channel tunnel, that extends the European high speed rail network. Nevertheless, these improvements were not obtained through exclus… Show more
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