Originally Posted by
callum9999
Plus HS1 is used by quite a lot of domestic passengers now.
If you look at Ashford in Kent after HS1 you can see a huge boom in economic growth. (It's now 40 minutes to London, when it used to be 90)
Evan Davis did a brilliant BBC program on Infrastructure and engineering in the UK:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nd243