London Banter - View Single Post - (Times): Britain to have fastest train service in the worldwithin 12 years

Lüko Willms

Am Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:38:41 UTC, schrieb
(Neil Williams) auf uk.railway :

OK, I got that point. But does London have one particular center
like one place or street crossing where everything happens and where
everybody wants or has to go? Don't people who arrive at Euston Road
from somewhere north do not have to use "the creakingly slow
LUL/LOROL", buses, or taxis?

Yes, but (Crossrail aside, which is a good point if the terminus was
in the west) they will have to use it for longer, which will offset
some of the gains.

How about _two_ HSLs from London to "the North",

-- one leaving central London to the West, stopping at or near
Heathrow airport, and then speeding up North to Birmingham (maybe via
Oxford);

-- the other one leaving central London to the East, stopping at
Stratfort Int'l, then turning North with a station at Stanstead
airport, Cambridge, and then Leeds.

The two lines would be linked together with a central station
underneath Euston Road between Euston Station and King's Cross... The
Eastern branch would have a direct link coming from Ebbsfleet Int'l to
the North.

Cheers,
L.W.

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