Was wondering if someone could answer a few questions on the following article mentioning a proposed second terminus at King's Cross alongside Waterloo as the Channel Tunnel was being planned?
1) Is it known what the three other stations considered on shortlist for the second station were?
2) Additionally how did they plan on having Eurostar trains reach Newcastle and Edinburgh, etc or was this basically a precursor to High Speed 1, in that the routes to the rest of the UK north of London basically bypassed King's Cross / St Pancras (unless the proposed station at King's Cross was not in fact a terminus but itself a stop linking the continent to the rest of the UK)?
https://londonist.com/london/transport/kings-cross-station-eurostar-st-pancras
1) Is it known what the three other stations considered on shortlist for the second station were?
2) Additionally how did they plan on having Eurostar trains reach Newcastle and Edinburgh, etc or was this basically a precursor to High Speed 1, in that the routes to the rest of the UK north of London basically bypassed King's Cross / St Pancras (unless the proposed station at King's Cross was not in fact a terminus but itself a stop linking the continent to the rest of the UK)?
https://londonist.com/london/transport/kings-cross-station-eurostar-st-pancras