Comments by "doveton sturdee" (@dovetonsturdee7033) on "HS2: New fears over future of high speed rail link" video.

  1.  @KILLER.KNIGHT  HS2 is a passenger only line. Building something in the 2020s and 2030s which might have been a good idea in the 1990s really is not wisdom. The alternative, of re-opening the old Great Central line as a freight & passenger line with the same standards of the current west & east coast mail lines, thus relieving the pressure on both at a fraction of the cost, seems never to have been considered. In short, is it really worth spending over £100 billion in order to get from London to Birmingham twenty minutes quicker in ten years' time?
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  2. No. HS2 was first proposed in January 2009. One Gordon Brown was Prime Minister at the time. When it was confirmed in 2012, a certain David Cameron was Prime Minister. Johnson did not become PM until July, 2019.
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  3.  @KILLER.KNIGHT  Manchester London Road and Sheffield to Marylebone. It was allowed to run down after Nationalisation, before being knifed by Beeching, with the encouragement of the despicable Ernest Marples.
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  4. We northern persons demand special coaches in which to transport our Whippets & Pigeons, as well as suitable places to leave our flat caps.
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  5.  @peterwilliamallen1063  I doubt that they will, as the rolling stock for the two lines will be completely different.
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