Mastodawn

I am now getting train-splained that trains from London to Köln and Frankfurt are not economic, and that my #CrossChannelRail work has not done an economic impact assessment https://jonworth.eu/if-you-were-to-build-a-depot-for-channel-tunnel-passenger-trains-where-would-you-build-it/#comment-88076

FFS

1) I am 1 campaigner, and have produced more detail on these topics than *anything else* in public, and more than any company has released

2) If Amsterdam (4 hours) works, why can Köln (4 hrs) and Frankfurt (5 hrs) with large catchments NOT work?

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jsl Jan 6

@jon Deutsche Bahn jumped through all the hoops to do exactly that because they are dumb? Gemini (?) recently did the same, because start-ups don't think about economic viability?? Lufthansa & BA are operating 20 daily flights FRA-LON because they are mostly empty and only used by people living and working walking distance from these airports and not by bankers who'd love to arrive in the middle of a city??? These commenters really know it all! /s

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Jon Worth Jan 6

@jsl To be fair I am not sure that Gemini had full answers. DB did in the 2010s. DB doesn't now, really, it wants to let Eurostar find answers :-)

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Dr. Sobek Jan 6

@jon @jsl Why did DB, having all the answers in the 2010, not run anything to London commercially ?

(If there's some explanation)

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Jon Worth

@Sobex @jsl Because it couldn't OPERATIONALLY. Border controls, and ICE 406 series being too unreliable, and delay getting the 407 series into service.