Newcastle defender Steven Taylor, who came into the first team at St James' Park when Speed was the side's senior professional, expressed his gratitude for the help the midfielder gave him at the club.
High Speed One, the operator of the high rail speed link from St Pancras in London to the Channel Tunnel, also confirmed it would be pleased to see rivals use the service - and as importantly, that there was the space for them.
The 68-mile high speed railway line runs from St Pancras to the Channel Tunnel opening at Folkestone in Kent.
The French are not happy that German trains, not French ones, will run on the soon-to-open high-speed link between Moscow and St Petersburg, nor that Siemens is pulling out of its nuclear joint venture with Areva.
There will be nothing high-speed about an express from Chicago to St Louis that stops nine times in between.
Distance is no longer a barrier, he says, and high-speed internet has allowed local businesses in St Agnes to think about location in entirely new ways.
The jury heard that two cars were spotted travelling "at speed" through the village of Combe St Nicholas, near Chard, at about 05:15 GMT on the morning Miss Wells-Burr body was discovered in her burning car.
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Southeastern's high speed service already stops at Stratford International from St Pancras International.
Network Rail said the route between Yeovil Junction and Exeter St Davids, which had been blocked by landslips, had reopened with speed restrictions.
She also foresees a spur linking Britain's only existing high-speed line (from the Channel Tunnel to London's St Pancras station) to Heathrow airport.
Now to be known as High Speed 1 (HS1), the 68-mile link runs from St Pancras to the Channel Tunnel opening at Folkestone, in Kent.
This high speed has been exploited by a research team led by Andrew Cameron of the University of St Andrews, in Scotland.
"It would be great to look up at the departure board at St Pancras International and also see cities like Amsterdam, Cologne and Frankfurt as direct destinations, " said High Speed One director of communications Ben Ruse.
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