The Man in Seat 61Aug 3, 2023
The most accurate & incisive thing you'll read about HS2 all week... https://capx.co/hs2-is-making-britain-an-international-laughing-stock/
HS2 is making Britain an international laughing stock

It’s finally official: HS2 is ‘unachievable’, according to the UK’s Infrastructure and Projects Authority. That doesn’t mean the project isn’t still happening, or that it won’t cost us billions, it just means that years – decades, probably – ahead of its launch we know it isn’t going to deliver what we need from it. What’s […]

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Show threaddevoluteAug 3, 2023
@seatsixtyone Only now has it dawned on me that an HS2 line could have meant trains on other lines actually stopping at all those towns and villages around where I am in South Yorkshire - opening them up to tourism, investment, a wider job market… agh! What a disaster.
Show threadKatie FennAug 3, 2023

@devolute @seatsixtyone A really good example is Belper. One train per hour to Derby and Nottingham, hardly any service to Sheffield.

This is because it’s such an important trunk route for the EMR and Cross Country express services between Sheffield, Derby, London and Birmingham. There’s no room for anything else.

Very similar pressures on Dronfield and other towns. This is always what HS2 has been all about.

Show threaddevoluteAug 3, 2023

@katiefenn @seatsixtyone That's exactly the station I was thinking of as it happens! Dronfield is a lot better off though could be better, as you say.

I honestly wasn't aware. Maddening.

Show threadKatie Fenn
@devolute @seatsixtyone I’ll happily talk your head off (again) about it at the pub sometime - but yeah, the whole project has been poorly communicated and mismanaged throughout. But it really should be extraordinary.
Aug 3, 2023 at 2:05pmWeb