On Dec 5, 3:09 pm, Tom Anderson wrote:
In my scheming, i was thinking of an HSL up the Midland mainline, coming
off the WCML at Rugby and going to Leicester via a new route.

This could use the Great Central alignment - take it from Rugby then
alongside the M1, past Lutterworth, joining up with the Nuneaton-
Leicester line just north of Whetstone (the old trackbed has been
built on by Whetstone, so it'd need to be a new alignment more closely
following the M1). I don't know how the Rugby end works, or how it'll
be affected by their new relief road. There's also another Rugby-
Leicester alignment that criss-crosses that and could serve Magna
Park, which might be a more interesting destination than Lutterworth.

I suppose you could still do this with the Chiltern route, but you'd want the link
to run from Leamington Spa to Leicester (along the Fosse Way, nice and
straight!). Or from Birmingham to Derby/Nottingham; that might make more
sense either way.

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Abi