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Author: Bill TongBill Tong
Date: Sep 10, 2008 23:39
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/air-france-to-launch-quicker...
Air France to launch 'quicker' train to Paris as Eurostar monopoly
ends
By Michael Savage
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Eurostar's monopoly from St Pancras will end in 2010
Fares and journey times for passengers travelling to Europe could fall
in just two years after an announcement by Air France that it is to
compete with Eurostar by running a high-speed rail service to Paris.
The trip from London could take less than two hours under the
company's plan to bring a new generation of high-speed trains to St
Pancras station. They will be capable of a maximum speed of 224mph,
38mph faster than the current top speed of trains running to France.
Eurostar's monopoly will come to an end at the start of 2010, when new
"open access" laws come into force.
The economic downturn has hit airlines hard, while the popularity of
high-speed rail travel has been booming. Eurostar saw passenger
numbers rise by 18 per cent in the first half of this year.
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Author: Bill TongBill Tong
Date: Sep 10, 2008 23:37
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/air-france-to-launch-quicker...
Air France to launch 'quicker' train to Paris as Eurostar monopoly
ends
By Michael Savage
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Eurostar's monopoly from St Pancras will end in 2010
Fares and journey times for passengers travelling to Europe could fall
in just two years after an announcement by Air France that it is to
compete with Eurostar by running a high-speed rail service to Paris.
The trip from London could take less than two hours under the
company's plan to bring a new generation of high-speed trains to St
Pancras station. They will be capable of a maximum speed of 224mph,
38mph faster than the current top speed of trains running to France.
Eurostar's monopoly will come to an end at the start of 2010, when new
"open access" laws come into force.
The economic downturn has hit airlines hard, while the popularity of
high-speed rail travel has been booming. Eurostar saw passenger
numbers rise by 18 per cent in the first half of this year.
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Author: Bill TongBill Tong
Date: Sep 10, 2008 23:35
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/air-france-to-launch-quicker...
Air France to launch 'quicker' train to Paris as Eurostar monopoly
ends
By Michael Savage
Thursday, 11 September 2008
Eurostar's monopoly from St Pancras will end in 2010
Fares and journey times for passengers travelling to Europe could fall
in just two years after an announcement by Air France that it is to
compete with Eurostar by running a high-speed rail service to Paris.
The trip from London could take less than two hours under the
company's plan to bring a new generation of high-speed trains to St
Pancras station. They will be capable of a maximum speed of 224mph,
38mph faster than the current top speed of trains running to France.
Eurostar's monopoly will come to an end at the start of 2010, when new
"open access" laws come into force.
The economic downturn has hit airlines hard, while the popularity of
high-speed rail travel has been booming. Eurostar saw passenger
numbers rise by 18 per cent in the first half of this year.
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Author: sutowo.bizlinkssutowo.bizlinks
Date: Sep 10, 2008 20:29
10 Good Reason To Attend TIME 2008 - Tourism Indonesia Mart & Expo
2008
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Author: Gregory MorrowGregory Morrow
Date: Sep 10, 2008 13:02
One hopes...???
PLEASE...PLEASE...PLEASE...???
--
Best
Greg
" I find Greg Morrow lowbrow, witless, and obnoxious. For him to claim that
we are some
kind of comedy team turns my stomach."
- "cybercat" to me on rec.food.cooking
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Author: Shining SeaShining Sea
Date: Sep 10, 2008 12:57
They continue to withhold vital evidence
from law enforcement and the District Attorneys,
and continue to knowingly let sexual offenders
pour into and operate on Myspace.
Many underaged children are being sexually assaulted
and raped because of MySpace.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PV9FrNLjto
[`y*kcFyG%%
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Author: erilarerilar
Date: Sep 10, 2008 09:38
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 22:31:45 +1000, M............ wrote
> (in article 40tude.net>):
>
>> half a dozen?
>>
>
> Not that many.
Judging from the topics alone, that's possible.
--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)
You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count.
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Author: JennyJenny
Date: Sep 10, 2008 09:31
Hi I have just had a phone call from a company who I think was hosted survey
where I answered some questions by pressing keys on the phone. Of course I
have won a holiday (I know it is a con but I was going to play along)
however I must have misheard the web address I am suppposed to go to so I
cannot enter my details. Anyone else had this phone survey and can tell me
the web address I am supposed to go to?
Thanks, Jan
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Author: Tom PTom P
Date: Sep 10, 2008 08:40
M............ wrote:
> CERN started up and no black hole, so the get together is off.
> But they have invented "the grid" after having invented the web, so will we
> be on the grid in 20 years time?
Any black hole would be of subatomic size, so after dissipating its
momentum after a few atomic collisions and boring a hole the size of an
atom in the wall of the accelerator, it could right now be drifting down
under gravitational force, consuming the occasional baryon on the way
towards the earth's core, where it will gradually increase in size over
the next few months...
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Author: HatunenHatunen
Date: Sep 10, 2008 08:37
On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:57:03 +0100, "M............"
freedomnames.co.uk> wrote:
>CERN started up and no black hole, so the get together is off.
>But they have invented "the grid" after having invented the web, so will we
>be on the grid in 20 years time?
What is "the grid"?
CERN didn't invent the Web. Tim Berners-Lee, who worked at CERN,
invented the Web.
--
************* DAVE HATUNEN (hatunen@ cox.net) *************
* Tucson Arizona, out where the cacti grow *
* My typos & mispellings are intentional copyright traps *
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