https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/29/branson_hyperloop_rail_cheaper_hs2/ > Richard Branson, figurehead of all things branded Virgin, has opined that our rain-sodden island needs a hyperloop railway system. > The billionaire Brit, who is non-exec chairman of Virgin Hyperloop One, told BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme that a hyperloop "would end up transporting people far quicker, in far greater numbers, with far greater convenience than any other train network in the UK".