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Looks like it's going right down at the bottom of my garden. Another waste of money, £33billion for a VIP Railway???

Unlucky! Let's get it built.

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Grandad,

Agreed, its the future for long distance high speed passenger transport in the UK and across to the Fatherland

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Of all the things ive lost, i miss my mind the most

Total waste of money.

It's being labelled the 'rich person's railway'.

It won't bother you to much anyway. You will probably be dead by the time it's built.

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Grandad,

Probably won't but the building of it might.

It will be a good method of getting the late arriving foreign migrants and asylum seekers to the midlands in only half the time.

And with through trains from the continent, it will save the problem of Kent having the expense of dealing with them.

My only complaint about HS2 is why TF is it taking ao long to build? the French/Germans/Spanish build their high speed lines in a matter of 3 years, not 30 years. Sorry 2 complaints, what use is a station between Nottingham and Derby when it will take at least 30 mins to get from either city to the station??

East midlands airport is between Leicester, Nottingham and Derby and it seems to do OK.

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Grandad,

It has one purpose only. It's another addition to the London centred thinking which dominates the UK nowadays.

...and it will extend what some of you call "the north" into another part of the London commuter belt.

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Poland's prime minister welcomes the news.

what was so offensive about my post that it was removed ?

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lack of modern legislation is the iceberg sinking the titanic of the transport sector

ISTR similar comments being made about HS1 when that was being built..rich man's railway...waste of money...nimby...

Those same nimbys now use it to get from the green fields of Kent to London in 38 minutes instead of 70 minutes; fares are reasonable though slightly higher than by the old line; it is under capacity at the moment but when DB start their direct services from Cologne to London next year it will see more use; there's complaints that the HS1 didn't quite go far enough and ought to be extended to Ramsgate.

The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is almost at full capacity; people moan about overcrowding and delays, so the answer they all shout for is more capacity. It isn't feasible to widen the existing WCML without demolishing half of Watford and Rugby, so the answer is a new high speed line, simples. That way it frees capacity on the WCML for slower trains. Similarly the East Coast line is almost at capacity with a train every 20 minutes from London to Leeds. In my days working on that line in the 1970's it was a train every 2 hours from London to Leeds, so that shows the extent of passenger growth.

HS2 would also relieve that overcrowing on the ECML which has also been widened in places to allow more capacity.

one day it might go all the way to the snowy wastelands we call Scotland, after the place has been civilised and folk speak English

it will be handy for natives heading south to civilisation (i.e. anything this side of Hadrians wall) but they will need a passport soon...

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