Plans for the High Speed Rail in Britain Take Shape

I’m a bit of a rail geek and one thing I love about Britian is the pervasiveness of rail in every day life.

As concerns increase about the environmental costs of air travel, many argue that the solution is to build more eco-friendly high speed rail lines in Britain.

Well, a company established by the British Government is due to report soon on what shape and form a second high speed rail line in Britain will take.

And it sounds pretty darn cool.

From the BBC Article yesterday:

A major new station in the heart of London will be part of plans for a north-south high-speed rail line to be submitted to the government this week.

The first stage of the 250mph new line – from the capital to the West Midlands – could open by 2025.

The station would cater for up to 18 trains and 20,000 passengers an hour.

The proposal is in a report by the High Speed Two (HS2) company which has been set up by ministers to identify a viable route for the new line.

Any plans, no matter what stage they are at, are currently a bit pie-in-the-sky as it would probably be 2017-2020 before any construction could start. It will cost an ungodly amount of money and take an ungodly amount of time.

But that shouldn’t stop them from doing it.