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Originally Posted by Tony
All that HS2 would achieve is a faster journey from A to B. If you add C and D as stops, most of the time saving dissappears. In our crowded island, the extra stops would be needed.
If a Pendolino carries 500 passengers, six trains per hour (on a single track) gives a maximum of 3000 passengers per hour. On HS2, headways would have to be longer and I don't think any more than 3000 passengers per hour would be possible.
To achieve very little, HS2 would cost at least £20billion at todays prices. Given that it would take at least 10 years to be up and running, the final bill would be upwards of £50 billion and counting.
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the whole point of HS2 is not to make it quicker for Londoners to get to Brum or visa versa. No, the point is that the Germans want to take their shiny ICE to places like Manchester and Edinburgh so that all us Brits can see how wundabra they are at high speed travel. Then they win the battle for supremacy in Europe.
