Bromley boy
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Flying is a pretty miserable experience, the train wins every time where it is practicable.
Britain is a small country and should have a network of high-speed lines covering by the whole country by now. it is an indictment of transport policy failure and governments' refusal to invest in HS rail that the internal airline market still exists in 2018.
Agreed flying is usually pretty miserable.
I disagree about the need for a network of high speed lines. They are simply unnecessary in such a small country. 125mph (hopefully 140mph in due course) is plenty!
The U.K. has good rail connections between the major commercial centres. Most of the major commercial centres (Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds) can be accessed by rail from London within no more than a couple of hours.
Flying only really starts to make sense for the very longest U.K. journeys e.g. London to Scotland.