Rethinking HS2 And HS3
There is an article on the Rail News web site entitled Sheffield-Leeds HS2 route ‘to be shared with HS3’.
The article bases their article on a document called Rolling Stock Perspective, published by the Department of Transport and comes to the conclusion, that HS2 and HS3 may share tracks between Leeds and Sheffield.
In a post, which I called Whither HS2 and HS3?, I suggested HS2 and HS3 shared tracks between Manchester Interchange (Airport), Manchester and Leeds, and also said that both HS2 and HS3 should serve Leeds and Sheffield. So I might have got it right!
The one thing, I did get right in that post was the last statement.
The one thing we mustn’t do is build HS2 as it is currently designed, as we can do much better than is proposed.
Certainly, it appears that there is a lot of serious thinking going on in the design of HS2 and HS3. Today it was about linking HS2 and HS3, whereas yesterday it was about linking HS1 and HS2.
Who knows what idea will turn up next?
The Anonymous Widower 
[…] It makes me wonder if it would be more efficient for HS2 and HS3 to share a route through Manchester from the Airport to Victoria and on to Huddersfield and Leeds. It would need to be mainly in tunnel and could go right under the city with underground stations. I wrote about it in Rethinking HS2 And HS3. […]
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