CTRL first phase official opening

• High-speed Channel rail link opens, BBC Online 16/9/03.
  (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/3112250.stm)

The first phase section of Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), the first new main line railway to be built in Britain in over a century and the first new dedicated high-speed railway line, was officially opened, the report says. The actual service trains will run from 28 September. Our interest then is whether other high speed corridors like this will be constructed in the UK in the future, although many think it unlikely...