Waverley125
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1) Yes, you could. You then have to resignal the entirety of City's station throat to 24tph. Given the slow acceleration of large numbers of trains leaving, and their need to cross, this is going to be incredibly expensive. Also incredibly inefficient as the only lines wired in the west (Wakefield & A&W) have their own bays and so would actually take up MORE capacity at City, not less.
2) Yeah, you couldn't run trains through Crown Point at 200 mph. Given Leeds is a city of a million people, all trains should be stopping there. Really don't see that as a problem. Building Crown Point as a through station would likely be a lot cheaper (given it requires one tunnel) than your alternative. You wouldn't need to rebuild City in any way (at least, not because of HS2) as the lines would run parallel for a bit in East Leedsm City would be unaffected
3) No, they wouldn't. The Eastern viaduct is already full at two lines, and is up for widening/eastern bays at Marsh Lane. There's no way you could double deck it and widen it, way too expensive and destructive. If HS trains do go into City, they definitely terminate there.
4) The Southeastern approach is easy-you join near Methley (in open country) you then run through the existing approach, where there's space for separate lines, you then leave that approach for Crown Point. No tunnelling, bridging of any kind is required.
5) Undercroft Concourse?? WHERE???? City opens out onto City Square, and you'd probably have to demolish the Queens Hotel to build your throughs (QH is listed, and a very important bit of the streetscape, so will never happen). The only place I can see would be Dark Neville Street (never going to happen) or Sovereign St. If the latter, this would at best reduce the size of the concourse, hugely increasing congestion on the station.
Let's just remember people, City station is full with the trains it already has. A lot of work is going to have to be done to cope with the existing demands on it from Conventional rail. There's just no way it can cope with becoming a HS hub as well.
2) Yeah, you couldn't run trains through Crown Point at 200 mph. Given Leeds is a city of a million people, all trains should be stopping there. Really don't see that as a problem. Building Crown Point as a through station would likely be a lot cheaper (given it requires one tunnel) than your alternative. You wouldn't need to rebuild City in any way (at least, not because of HS2) as the lines would run parallel for a bit in East Leedsm City would be unaffected
3) No, they wouldn't. The Eastern viaduct is already full at two lines, and is up for widening/eastern bays at Marsh Lane. There's no way you could double deck it and widen it, way too expensive and destructive. If HS trains do go into City, they definitely terminate there.
4) The Southeastern approach is easy-you join near Methley (in open country) you then run through the existing approach, where there's space for separate lines, you then leave that approach for Crown Point. No tunnelling, bridging of any kind is required.
5) Undercroft Concourse?? WHERE???? City opens out onto City Square, and you'd probably have to demolish the Queens Hotel to build your throughs (QH is listed, and a very important bit of the streetscape, so will never happen). The only place I can see would be Dark Neville Street (never going to happen) or Sovereign St. If the latter, this would at best reduce the size of the concourse, hugely increasing congestion on the station.
Let's just remember people, City station is full with the trains it already has. A lot of work is going to have to be done to cope with the existing demands on it from Conventional rail. There's just no way it can cope with becoming a HS hub as well.
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