"Brian Whitehead" <brianwhitehead@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Having read all the comments posted recently, I would like to propose
> a new route for HS2:
>
> Bournemouth - Bath: via S&D
> Bath - Oxford: new build
> Oxford - Calvert: via Oxford-Cambridge route - might as well reopen
> all the way to Cambridge as well
> Calvert - Sheffield: Great Central
> Sheffield - Manchester: Woodhead
> Manchester - Carlisle: via Hellifield and S&C
> Carlisle - Edinburgh: Waverley line
>
> That's just my first effort - I'm sure someone else could come up with
> a route which takes in more of our favourites - any takers?
What would be the purpose of this new route?
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