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According to the November 2016 Y network modelled service, there wouldn't be 3tph at Birmingham Interchange to Curzon Street. There's no sign of HS2 having much idea about revenue at particular stations. It's fingers in the air.

Not everyone would agree with you. I've been there. I wouldn't call Lille conurbation a success story.

I don't think you saying "It certainly did", counts as evidence.

Indeed. The inconsistency, and illogicality, is enormous.

I can't see how there'd be much practical difference between the accuracy of geolocation of a train accident, compared to a coach accident. In a train accident, it's entirely possible that both the guard and driver could be incapacitated. So presumably, you could argue for having a third...

Surely, there are numerous places in eastern Kent that had journeys well over an hour into London after Southeastern High Speed 1 services, like Ramsgate. I haven't seen any opinion polls showing 'HS1 desperation' in Hastings. Most people probably work within a 10-mile radius of the town...

I daresay the vast majority of train passengers are going to understand what a railway is, and how to summon assistance for anyone on the train injured in an accident. By dialing 999, probably. But this doesn't really answer the question as to why a safety trained second crewperson should be...

If road vehicles 'can react (near) instantly', why do multi-vehicle pile-ups happen? Access and egress are not straightforward, if the bus has crashed off the road down an embankment (for example).

Which places in Kent are commutable that weren't before? How many people commute from them? No doubt? The vast majority of people in those cities hardly ever, or never, use HS1.

But what if a coach, or bus, has crashed as a result of driver incapacity, and passengers are injured or disoriented? Should there be a safety trained second member of staff on the bus, for such an eventuality?

National Express and Megabus etc are OPO as well. If the NX driver is incapacitated halfway down the M1, are the passengers familiar with the road environment into which they will be stepping if there is a need to evacuate in an emergency?

If the driver of a bus is incapacitated, the bus might "be stopped pretty much immediately" by crashing into a tree or a supermarket, or somesuch. Should buses have a safety trained conductor onboard, to meet that eventuality?

"Protected"? What does that mean? Why do they need protection? Not really. The daily travelling time from London suburbs would be too long. Did HS1 kickstart spreading the wealth and jobs across southern England?

Every day, far more people travel on buses than on trains, and these have been 99%+ OPO for years. So, if something incapacitates the bus driver, should there be a safety-trained conductor onboard each bus, to take control of the situation?

Also, what happens if a woman goes into labour on a DOO train? There could be consequences. All the evidence might point towards keeping guards, and 'upskilling' them in diabetes treatment, defibrillation, midwifery, etc.

Surely, they'd have £380 in "revenue". But in reality, a great deal of rail companies' "revenue" is government subsidy. For example, in Scotland around three quarters of railway revenue is subsidy (IIRC). Is the goal of HS1 to transport the maximum number of people?

If the Technical Annex is the 'argument' for HS2, there isn't much of an argument.

To meet the level of demand anticipated by Network Rail, the legacy network around London would have to be upgraded with new signalling, dive-unders, etc. One likely opportunity cost of HS2 is a lower-capacity legacy network, from HS2 crowding out other investments.

To get very high performance, there would need to be infrastructure improvements. In principle, the relief lines could perform the loop function, because north of Tring, there are fewer trains.

Stopping trains loop off the main line at open linespeed, and rejoin the main line at open linespeed, in the ghost path vacated by the following stopping train. I don't think stopping trains at Watford 'maximises' capacity. There could be a business benefit in doing so, which is a different...