Mizter T wrote:

Er, why is it all so "bloody obvious" - how so?

Because having a 120 mile HSL from the northwest and a 50 mile HSL from the
southeast both terminating in NW1 less than half a mile from each other is
totally retarded.

In fact, forget the reversal. There is not much in the Polygon Road/Brill
Place area that wouldn't be improved by a wrecking ball. Build the new
through station stretching between the north end of Euston and the north end
of St Pancras. Extend all Kent Domestics forward to the north, so that the
existing Euston would be big enough for the remaining high speed trains to
the north without being extended sideways over Cardington Street. I suspect
that to get the new through platforms flat you would have to sever
Mornington Street, but that's no big deal.

The current plan mostly involves the demolition of hotels and a closed tube
station entrance, which would not lose votes in what is probably now a
marginal constituency, whereas threatening to demolish half of Somerstown
would. The current plan is a NIMBE plan (Negligable Impact on Marginal
Before Election). It's all about the election, not about transport.

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