Having said that has anyone read the Wikipedia page on high speed 2 ? It kind of reads like someone really in the know is keeping it up to date, indeed the language reads like its been written by a civil servant
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2#DftHS2Jan09
I suspect though that most of it comes from this pdf from the Dept of Transport that put the case for it in Jan 2009.
http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/rail/pi/hi...ghspeedtwo.pdf
We apparently should know for sure what is intended by the end of the year.
However, the speculated potential for four tracks running double decker rolling stock sounds to me like there might even be something of an over capacity situation
Obviously they haven't got to build it all at once