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by iso1631 1400 days ago
It seems crazy to me that a 90 mile trip takes 2.5 hours by train! That's half the speed of the notoriously slow Bristol-Birmingham stopping route.
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It makes a lot of stops and has a lot of very slow sections. And in one city, the line runs down the middle of a street - with no separation whatsoever (construction is underway to eliminate this)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Shore_Line#/media/File...