Parkway stations on HS2?

[Backroom_boy]

Isn’t the difference that there would still be services on the South end of WCML suitable for that purpose?

I've often thought it would be useful to have car hire places more easily accessible/intergrated from/at stations at the edge of the TFL travel area

 

[Bletchleyite]

I've often thought it would be useful to have car hire places more easily accessible/intergrated from/at stations at the edge of the TFL travel area

There is one directly opposite Bletchley station. I don't think this is entirely unknown elsewhere. But I doubt many people reach it by train.

 

[corfield]

From what I can tell from street view and aerial photography that connection would never pass muster as a permanent junction.

It will be a permament junction AIUI for a services which will be built on the site after HS2 is done using it, a longstanding “need” on the western M25.

Having driven past it many times, and run/cycled the track that used to go through it, it is a fully formed junction in terms of the slips and over bridges.

So ideal to also serve a parkway station tbh. Although that section is rammed traffic wise so the last thing it needs is more traffic to/from a station. I also doubt there would be much benefit for many people getting to/round the M25 vs just going to Chiltern / WCML / MML / GWML / ECML stations to get to/away from London?

Personally I think the best location for a station (and to offset the huge pain in the arse that HS2’s approach to building it has been for swathes of communities, including mine where it is absolutely hated - to the point HS2 security costs against locals must be truly mounting up): would be at Calvert instead of the maintenance depot and as the centrepiece of a new rail and tram based green city. 200k+ people would provide the traffic to support HS2 and also help EWR.


As it stands now, HS2 is presumably not going to have the traffic levels envisaged as it will not take over the East/North East traffic that it might have done with the Y. So doing things that bring more utilisation and a “west coast” focus on the W.Mid/NW alone seems more sensible to me.

 

[LNW-GW Joint]

There is the widened formation of HS2 just south of the M25 crossing/Chiltern tunnel portal, which was intended to carry the Heathrow branch junction before that was cancelled.
But it isn't close to any population centre.