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Article referred to is in today's Sunday Times. The route described is Arup's preferred route. It follows the Chiltern line to Bicester then the M40 north from there.

If you dont want to have a proper discussion then I am off. Thanks and adios.

According to an estate agent, the financial blight to house prices of a new railway alongside an existing motorway or railway is less (because the houses are worth less already). This would be a consideration for the Dept for Transport as part of the cost of building this sort of new...

As far as I remember the Arup proposal is for trains travelling at 320kph not 400kph but not all of them stop in West London (at Crossrail interchange). I think that is where they make up the time?

Arup produced a route similar to this for the DfT. Trains would run at the same speed as HS1 in Kent and Arup have stated that their route would take just 3.5 minutes longer London to Birmingham. The CPRE have also questioned the ultra high speed proposed for HS2 -...

CliveHiggins. Thank you for the well written posts. I agree with those who have said HS2 should be about capacity not speed. If HS2 ran slightly slower (300kph not 400kph) the route could curve, allowing it to avoid sensitive areas of landscape and villages. Trains would require less power...