Baltasound,
Thanks for helping to ram the point home - Silver tends to get these things in the end!
OK - I said I wouldn't respond on this thread as it has very little to do with aviation....
The thread is about a new London airport - no surface access, no airport - I have suggested to Silver that he makes his HS2 comments on the thread about that in JB though.
There will be a link between High Speed One and High Speed Two
Probably. I have seen the maps, but I don't think they have costed it yet. They have not proposed HS2-HS1 domestic services, and there are a lot of technical challenges re: the case for a Chunnel - Mids & Ne continuation.
tbc.... back later