Octane Magazine

ROBERT COUCHER

A rather sad day for Great Britain, the country that invented the railway, as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak cancels the second leg of the grand HS2 project.

Must admit, I never thought that a bullet train was entirely necessary to shave off 15 or 20 minutes from a journey between two cities already just a couple of hours apart. But, to be fair, getting business people between London and Manchester more quickly was not solely the initial idea. The plan was to free-up

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