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Old 13-01-2012, 13:46   #178
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Re: New high speed rail link ...is it worth it ?

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Originally Posted by Alan Fry View Post
Even they it would be less then 2 hours which is the length of some communiter journeys by Londoners!
The present train takes just under two hours to get to Birmingham, and after the Chiltern Line upgrade will take an hour and a half.

Really, you do seem to be missing the point of HS2, which is to provide high speed links to Birmingham and beyond, not between London and Brum.
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