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    The thing with 12 or 6 car HSTs through Shakespeare Tunnel is a safety issue - due to the narrowness of the tunnels each set of 6 coaches needs to have a safety rated member of staff to guide passengers off the train and to safety, The mainline services can run 12 cars with a single conductor as they are connecting carriages and people can disembark from the front or back of the train which is inherently safer. When they upgraded the tunnel a few years ago they lowered the track bed and shifted the track alignment as much as they could to allow a safe route down the side of the high speed trains, unfortunately there is nothing more they can do without completely re-boring/rebuilding the tunnel which to be honest is not going to happen

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