UK Ultraspeed warmly welcomes comments by Moir Lockhead when delivering the Robert Reid memorial lecture:

 

"Let's think big. Being world pioneers in railways, canals and underground systems was great - but we did not have the opportunity to learn from what others had already tried.

 

"That is not the case with high speed lines. We don't necessarily need to copy what the Japanese and European lines are delivering today. I have travelled on the Shanghai [Maglev] link to their airport clocking up 431 km/h. No nation has attempted anything on the scale we would need here but let's look at it in parallel to the more conventional options."