A while ago, I blogged on why I didn't get HS2 following on from a lunchtime conversation with a professional railway operator (http://birmingham2london.blogspot.com/2011/09/sorry-i-still-dont-get-hs2.html). I can only apologise to him for my tardiness in failing to carry his follow-up arguments earlier...
Thank you Peter. I don't think I suggested that Birmingham itself was an irrelevance, that seemed to come more from you. It is only in the sense that the real WCML problem is Rugby and south, and Birmingham is one of the destinations thus served. Take out Birmingham and that problem is eased, but the same applies to Manchester or Liverpool or Glasgow. Too many trains for the line capacity available, not quite yet, but this sort of problem isn't going to go away.
I think that you perhaps underestimate what a high speed line can do.
He has suggested that the following two links will help my understanding:
http://www.ciltuk.org.uk/pages/downloadfile?d=176BCDE8-D15D-413F-B1F2-1094117D7D78&a=stream
http://tv.theiet.org/technology/transport/1350.cfm
Both are by Professor Andrew McNaughton.
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