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The whole western island is out of use, the way to do the work would be to reactivate it which need not be disruptive as it's only used for excess capacity. Once that's up and running close the middle island and rig it up as needed for CCs to split and join.. Do wonder if the south facing bay...

Still if the canal folk are willing to pay for a barrel of dye or whatever would be neat.

In that case is accessing the classic network from st Pancras viable to save on HS2 paths.

Central not having any terminators helps greatly but it's not just an issue of trains per hour. The Wirral line loop can in theory take 30 TPH given adequate stock and signals, getting the trains through central probably wont be an issue. But the stations can't handle that many people...

No one is saying dont stop in central London, we're saying dont terminate there. Also aren't DB adding an Amsterdam, franfurt splitter?

The Waterloo tunnel was double track so a single GC gauge shouldn't be an issue. This all shows the London centric problem, the Warrington parkway route also adds a Liverpool, Manchester javelin service starting the case for a HS trans Pennine, this isn't even considered by the DFT. The...

Ah interesting, that could even catylise expansion of the town by the looks of it. That should be a non issue then, 508s don't even struggle there. I've been looking more closely at their HS2 lime street idea, not as whacky as i first thought it would be nice to keep the station tight...

What services currently run on it, I'm mostly interested in how many classic vs how many captive. it's in relation the the cufufle over the HS1 HS2 link and avoiding needless london terminators. Until we sort out the airline lobby's absurd security checks and do the passport checks in the...

Have you read 20 miles more, small addition would add Liverpool and warington to the captive lines and allow a javelin style service Liverpool > Warrington > Manchester airport > Manchester picadily. So long as care is taken there is room to leave passive provision at Manchester picadily for a...

Can you drop a pin on a map I'm struggling to locate the parkway station. i'd hate to see HS2 stations that don't interchange. I was sceptical too but not so it seems look how high the cutting reaches over the OHLL gear...

you can dye concrete fairly easily, it's a highly underused technique. http://www.dezeen.com/2013/06/05/the-bridges-of-europe-robin-stam-copied-from-euro-banknotes/ I dont think those are the best that can be done either, those are imitating banknotes, if you imitated canal aesthetics it could...

I should have mentioned i took a new pair of platforms at central as a given. the Runcorn trains wouldn't terminate they would be joined to the current terminators so it would have 8 through services rather than 4 through 4 terminators. Central will need redoing anyway at some point sooner or...

I was a bit sentimentally attached to lime street but the exchange site is very good. not quite long enough but cross the road and your golden. The box I've drawn is 60 meters wide and 405 meters long so it would fit. The platform section at Leeds new lane is 400m by 40-45m. There is even space...

At the very least a lick of paint would help bare concrete is pretty hideous.

I'll do a quick run down of whats being proposed and why. The slow lines and slow service on mixed lines east of edge are routed into this new tunnel, fast and semi fast services continue to run into lime street. This frees up quite a lot of capacity between edge hill and lime street...

Ok that makes a lot more sense, in that case the, Liverpool exchange > warington > man airport > man picadily > 'he wild lands to 'he east seems the best option they have. Anyone see any gaping holes in their exchange station > outer loop idea?

And this is where the Manchester HS station shows it's stupidity it cant interchange with any future line.

it all hinges on the dam security checks if we could end that madness we could end to end say a london Manchester to the london paris each hour. The biggest oversight i see is the raised station in manchester if it was in cutting we have the possibility of running it north in future allowing...

Just my 2p on the livery, use the same yellow in the livery as is used on the front and back of the train, the shift in colour looks very silly.

international bond markets at a far lower rate. IMO ROSCOS seem like a no brainier to renationalise and fold into network rail you cutting out the profit and I don't really see where you get bitten.