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Thanks for posting the layouts. Interesting to note that it's effectively the same as half of Edinburgh Waverley.

From age 11 my children had to cross one of the busiest and fastest urban roads in Scotland to get to school. While I was relieved when they left school and no longer had to do it, it never occurred to me that it was a risk they should not take. And I cross the same road myself several times a...

And there was me thinking the whole point of a new railway was to get to existing towns.

An excellent proposal from the W&NYCC, with many of the ideas seemingly taken from the HSUK scheme. Unfortunately HSUK seem to have taken their City Review Papers off their website, but most of their ideas for Leeds are discussed in their Yorkshire Rail Strategy here...

Yes, but by building HS2-only stations separated from the existing infrastructure, you're missing an opportunity to integrate the systems and to address deficiencies in the current infrastructure. Of course this would be a more expensive approach than an HS2-only station, which is one reason why...

OK, I've searched the forum for HSUK and the "High Speed Two (HS2) discussion" is the only thread that I haven't seen before. I'll work through the 6648 replies sometime and see what I learn!

I agree that there are a lot of unanswered questions in HSUK, but given that it's the self-funded effort of two engineers that's not surprising. Personally I like the idea of HS lines serving existing stations rather than new build. The capacity issues etc can then be addressed holistically...

There is another group which is surely worth a mention. This group is enthusiastic in support of high speed rail but argues that HS2 is simply the wrong scheme, costing far too much and delivering far too little. For those not familiar with it, High Speed UK has produced an alternative that...

I haven't voted because I can't find the button for "HS2 should be cancelled and HSUK built instead".