Re: Delivery of first Hitachi Javelin trains for Kent?

In message <1f7ot0z94cvi0.1ccgx7yibzqcn.dlg@xxxxxxxxxx>, at 21:00:41 on Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Chris Tolley <cjt.7@xxxxxxxxxxx> remarked:
Airports *are* definitely stressful though not all of them are also
unpleasant. Unwelcoming would IME be a fairer word to describe the
impression. I'd expect to discover that most of the people all of us
know find them to be so.

Scale is very important. Many of us living in East Anglia remember when Stansted "jumped the shark" and it wasn't possible any more to drive up to the terminal building, park within walkable distance in something that wasn't $EXPENSIVE_SHORT_STAY, and get on a plane half an hour later.

With a little extra security to cope with nowadays, that sort of timescale is still possible (and in an atmosphere no worse than a large railway station) at EMA, BHX T2, MAN T3 and with a pinch of salt Luton.

Gatwick, today's Stansted, and of course Heathrow, are all very different kettles of fish.
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Roland Perry
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