Re: Eurostar electrical and signalling

Phil Richards schrieb:


> The ferry companies are dealing mainly with those in their cars who could 
> be travelling between all number of points either side of the Channel, 
> not just London & Paris. You can't really call that as a competition 
> against air or Eurostar on the London to Paris or v.v. route.


It is the main competition to E*.

In general, the main competitor of rail in Europe is called "private
car", wether some "railroad managers" are able to accept that or not. The
volume of travel, that was shifted away from DB by their sick tariff
system was bigger than the whole volume of domestic flights in Germany.

The special situation in traffic to Britain is, that car traffic can be
counted conveniently on the ferries.



Hans-Joachim



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