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High-speed rail projects in Great Britain: lines or network?

Abstract

national audience If, in Europe, the desire to introduce a dose of competition marks recent developments in the railway sector, Great Britain is the country that has gone the furthest in terms of liberalisation. The English experience, disabled by chronic underinvestment, traumatised by the successive accidents of Hatfield and Paddington, stigmatised by the filmmaker K. Loach (in The Navigators) is now being challenged by the bankruptcy of Railtrack (the private company owning the infrastructure, managing and maintaining it). However, given its current shortcomings, the UK network is also one of the strongest potential for development in Europe. In this context, after a presentation of the main geographical and organisational characteristics of the British rail, high-speed rail is discussed in this article around the two challenges of returning the pendulum train to London-Glasgow and creating a high-speed line between London and the Channel Tunnel. In particular, questions will be asked about the specificities of British high-speed as a factor for segmentation or cohesion of the network in its territory.

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