HS2: alternative names

[coradiafan2000]

Is it really on the Coast, though.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[Sad Sprinter]

Is it really on the Coast, though.

Well it mirrors the West Coast Mainline.

The Eastern Y Arm could be called HS Midland or something.

 

[TRAX]

Well it mirrors the West Coast Mainline.

Which isn’t on the Coast either.

The Eastern Y Arm could be called HS Midland or something.

Great Midland High Speed Line.

 

[Sad Sprinter]

Which isn’t on the Coast either.



Great Midland High Speed Line.

Does it matter? The point is it broadly runs up the west coast of Great Britain as opossed to the East Coast Mainline. Not that its an actual coastal railway.

 

[elliotjelliot]

Is it really on the Coast, though.

I agree with you. HS2 Phase 1 is the midlands and part of Phase 2 heads over to the East 'coast' so West is a bit exclusive

 

[Bletchleyite]

I agree with you. HS2 Phase 1 is the midlands and part of Phase 2 heads over to the East 'coast' so West is a bit exclusive

You could give those bits a different name, as they are not the primary purpose of the main bit which is relieving the WCML.

 

[TRAX]

You could give those bits a different name, as they are not the primary purpose of the main bit which is relieving the WCML.

I agree, they should be named differently, as they are physically different lines.

 

[pdeaves]

the primary purpose of the main bit which is relieving the WCML

So... West Coast Relief line (or WC relief if you want). In the spirit of the Weston Clevedon & Portishead and the story about 'go to the WC & P'.

 

[HSTEd]

I think National Trunk Line or National Main Line (NTL or NML) would work quite well.

 

[coradiafan2000]

I think National Trunk Line or National Main Line (NTL or NML) would work quite well.

I don't know why but National Trunk Line sounds more like a motorway than a railway. The second one sounds good though.

 

[PTR 444]

• New London & Birmingham Railway
• New Great Central Railway
• LGV Londres Nord-Ouest

 

[Gareth]

London, Birmingham, Manchester & Leeds Railway

 

[adrock1976]

For each section based on the Acts of Parliament that constructed the conventional lines, I would go with the following:

New London & Birmingham High Speed Railway
New Grand Junction High Speed Railway
New Liverpool & Manchester High Speed Railway

When the above three sections have been constructed, this can be renamed to New London & North Western High Speed Railway.

For the Birmingham - Leeds/York section, I would have:

New Midland High Speed Railway.

Should if there ever be an attempt to construct a High Speed route in Scotland, this could start from Glasgow and Edinburgh working south towards Preston to meet the New L&NW HSR. This could subsequently be renamed New London & North Western/Caledonian Joint High Speed Railway.

 

[PeterC]

I suspect that the only thing stopping it being named the "Elizabeth Line" is that the name has already been used for Crossrail. If HM pops her clogs before completion then some fawning politician will probably go for the "King Charles Line".

 

[Meerkat]

Once it’s in operation marketing is best served by having ‘high speed’ in the name.
But I agree during development it would be more nuanced. Emphasising capacity increases would help with lower level politicians during the detailed approval process , but in the early stages of ‘catch the eye of the top politicians’ then ‘big shiny fast trains like all your foreign equivalents boast about’ probably works better than evoking a ‘you want to spend HOW much on more trains to Milton Keynes?!’

 

[yorkie]

Can we stick to the topic of ideas for alternative names and not get into an argument over whether or not anyone thinks HS2 is a good idea or not please. Thanks

I have split some posts here: https://www.railforums.co.uk/thread...r-hs2-discussion.177112/page-113#post-4292179 where those arguments can be made.

 

[xotGD]

London, Birmingham and Nowhere Else Railway.

 

[Gareth]

High Speed Poo.

 

[coradiafan2000]

Transchiltern Express? That could be the operator's name as opposed to the actual railway, although it's by no means a serious suggestion.

 

[coradiafan2000]

High Speed Poo.

I like that one! Made me giggle

 

[TT-ONR-NRN]

London Midland Main Line?

Grand National Main Line?

Great British Main Line? It will be the flagship mainline for the UK railways surely, so...

 

[The Ham]

High Speed Poo.

With carbon offsetting done by High Speed Tree.

 

[The Ham]

GC-21C (Grand Central for the twenty first century).

 

[swt_passenger]

GC-21C (Grand Central for the twenty first century).

The original was the Great Central though...

 

[Jorge Da Silva]

London, Birmingham, Manchester & Leeds Railway

I like that suggestion

• New London & Birmingham Railway
• New Great Central Railway
• LGV Londres Nord-Ouest

New Great Central may work.

 

[Speed43125]

• LGV Londres Nord-Ouest

We have a winner! That is the perfect name they should use from now on

 

[Gareth]

With carbon offsetting done by High Speed Tree.

I would've thought High Speed Pee would be a more natural bedfellow.

 

[The Ham]

I would've thought High Speed Pee would be a more natural bedfellow.

Well bears in woods and all that...

 

[randyrippley]

The Money Pit Line

 

[GrimShady]

Medium Speed One?