HS2

[IanM]

HS2 was a waste of money and an environmental disaster when happening, now it's a disaster for the Northern Economy if cut back.

Love the media

 

[larmen]

It was suppose to free up space on the rails for more traffic so more can go by rail again thus freeing up the roads a bit aswell

A friend of mine is a transport consultant and that is how he explained it to a group of us in a pub. Getting the long journeys off the local track, freeing them up for local commute and cargo. All about capacity.

But someone wanted a tagline and the whole time thing got rolling and the real purpose took a back seat.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Good news for Scotland though
We get the our share of the 'new' money for Scottish improvements whereas there was no gain to us from HS2

 

[Mel Smooth]

Genuinely, I'd quite happily never go to London again - let alone get there any quicker than I already can.

The Trans Pennine route runs through my hometown and it's also getting significant amounts of pointless investment - at least the football supporters and shoppers will be able to shorten their journey times, while hundreds of local commuters who need short rail journeys will be able to watch the fancy new trains go hurtling through the stations while they wait for the Northern Snail Rail service from Dewsbury to Huddersfield..

 

[clubchamp98]

HS2 should have always been built North down not South up.

It is the North that has a poor railway infrastructure not the South.

It’s served it’s purpose by making Birmingham a suburb of London.

Its all about getting people from Birmingham to London not from London to Birmingham

 

[Voyager EMH]

Whittington Heath Golf Club got a new clubhouse, five new holes and a practice range, because HS2 was going straight through the course.
All the new stuff has been done, but there will be no railway anymore.
I don't know where this leaves them.

Track was to go between the two red X on map. Five new holes are up and running - they look good as does the clubhouse.



If anyone has more info on this, I would like to know.

 

[jim8flog]

It’s served it’s purpose by making Birmingham a suburb of London.

Its all about getting people from Birmingham to London not from London to Birmingham

I meant they should have done the Leeds to Birmingham or the Manchester to Birmingham section first and second. The costs of these sections would have been a lot cheaper in the first place.

 

[stefanovic]

It’s served it’s purpose by making Birmingham a suburb of London.

Its all about getting people from Birmingham to London not from London to Birmingham

Wrong. London is a suburb of Birmingham, the city at the centre.

 

[clubchamp98]

I meant they should have done the Leeds to Birmingham or the Manchester to Birmingham section first and second. The costs of these sections would have been a lot cheaper in the first place.

That never happens.

 

[clubchamp98]

Wrong. London is a suburb of Birmingham, the city at the centre.

Right !

 

[stefanovic]

As an afterthought, where exactly is the north?
Like, what's north of the North Pole?

As far as GB is concerned anywhere north of Durham should be the North, and anywhere south is the South..
When I lived in the Isle of Wight Portsmouth was in the north.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

The North, for me, starts at South Yorkshire on the east and Cheshire on the west. Bits of north Shropshire and Staffordshire could be classed as the north, if we are looking at it from a county perspective.

Draw a straight line across at Stoke I would say, that's about right imo.

 

[ColchesterFC]

As an afterthought, where exactly is the north?
Like, what's north of the North Pole?

As far as GB is concerned anywhere north of Durham should be the North, and anywhere south is the South..
When I lived in the Isle of Wight Portsmouth was in the north.

Simple guide.....

 

[stefanovic]

From a personal point of view I know I'm in the "North" when I can get gravy on my fish and chips.
That's Ashbourne in Derbyshire.

 

[Orikoru]

Simple guide.....

This is wrong I'm afraid. It's more like this:

 

[D-S]

This is wrong I'm afraid. It's more like this:

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Not sure if people up the road from me in Gloucester would be too keen to be described as Northeners.

 

[stefanovic]

Good definition.
Catch a train from Euston and once you are north Watford you are in the North.

 

[bobmac]

 

[stefanovic]

Not sure if people up the road from me in Gloucester would be too keen to be described as Northeners.

Gloucester City FC play in the National League North.

 

[Orikoru]

Not sure if people up the road from me in Gloucester would be too keen to be described as Northeners.

If you live north of Watford, you're a Northerner I'm afraid.