It is a shame that the excellent Merseyrail system centred on Liverpool is not included on your map of cities with rapid transit systems while Blackpool trams, more a tourist than commuter service, is included. Frequent trains from eight places, including Southport and Chester, converge on Liverpool. Services run underground for part of the way to four Liverpool city centre underground stations. Nearly 30 million passengers travel annually and 600 trains run daily, the most intensive service outside London. A new fleet of trains, branded Metro, is now running. Sadly, so many researchers forget about this part of the world, despite a population of Liverpool City Region approaching two million.
In the 1950s and 1960s Britain built the World's fastest motorcycles - Vincents, the fastest production cars - Jaguar XK and Aston Martin, held the land and water speed records - Campbell's Bluebirds, air speed record - the Fairey Delta 2, fastest interceptor - English Electric Lightning, built the first convincing SVTOL strike aircraft - the Hawker Harrier*. almost complete was the Miles M52 which was a proper supersonic jet capable of sustained supersonic flight , the first ever designed plane with an afterburner, scrapped and the technology given to Bell who used it to make a rocket plane., and sold state-of-the-art combat planes and armour all around the World.
We built the first grid scale nuclear power station - Calder Hall from inception in 1952 to official opening on 17 October 1956, it closed on 31 March 2003, the first reactor having been in use for nearly 47 years.
It's called "managed decline", a result of inter alia Soviet Socialism and Corporate Socialism - Benito Mussolini's favoured synonym for Fascism, the bedrock of the EU.
It is all intentional of course, essentially we won the war, and could not be permitted to win the peace.
* Its successor the Hawker P1154, a Mach 2 capable version almost reached prototype level before it was scrapped, fifty years ago, now we have ended up with an inferior airplane - the F35.
And there was the Armstrong Whitworth 681, a four jet swept wing SVTOL transport using four Pegasus engines, perfect for intercity transport.
It is a shame that the excellent Merseyrail system centred on Liverpool is not included on your map of cities with rapid transit systems while Blackpool trams, more a tourist than commuter service, is included. Frequent trains from eight places, including Southport and Chester, converge on Liverpool. Services run underground for part of the way to four Liverpool city centre underground stations. Nearly 30 million passengers travel annually and 600 trains run daily, the most intensive service outside London. A new fleet of trains, branded Metro, is now running. Sadly, so many researchers forget about this part of the world, despite a population of Liverpool City Region approaching two million.
In the 1950s and 1960s Britain built the World's fastest motorcycles - Vincents, the fastest production cars - Jaguar XK and Aston Martin, held the land and water speed records - Campbell's Bluebirds, air speed record - the Fairey Delta 2, fastest interceptor - English Electric Lightning, built the first convincing SVTOL strike aircraft - the Hawker Harrier*. almost complete was the Miles M52 which was a proper supersonic jet capable of sustained supersonic flight , the first ever designed plane with an afterburner, scrapped and the technology given to Bell who used it to make a rocket plane., and sold state-of-the-art combat planes and armour all around the World.
We built the first grid scale nuclear power station - Calder Hall from inception in 1952 to official opening on 17 October 1956, it closed on 31 March 2003, the first reactor having been in use for nearly 47 years.
It's called "managed decline", a result of inter alia Soviet Socialism and Corporate Socialism - Benito Mussolini's favoured synonym for Fascism, the bedrock of the EU.
It is all intentional of course, essentially we won the war, and could not be permitted to win the peace.
* Its successor the Hawker P1154, a Mach 2 capable version almost reached prototype level before it was scrapped, fifty years ago, now we have ended up with an inferior airplane - the F35.
And there was the Armstrong Whitworth 681, a four jet swept wing SVTOL transport using four Pegasus engines, perfect for intercity transport.