Thanks for the sub!

Yes your correct i Studied the plans from two years ago and found this location it's a busy site will visit again 6 months for a updated progress on tubes

it is not a "Y" junction as it has 3 lines through it, one from Birmingham Interchange through this Junction to Birmingham Curzon street on the first leg, then from Birmingham Curzon Street to Manchester on the Second leg and then from London to Manchester across the top leg making it a diamond shape and called a Delta Junction

So why would it be cancelled then !!!

​@@peterwilliamallen1063you asked that question years ago when I said the same & I was proved correct when I said the cost was unsustainable Eastern leg - cancelled Golborne link - cancelled Northern leg - cancelled Euston station - unlikely to be completed. Don't rule out the cancelling of the London - Birmingham leg yet .. especially when Labour win the next election!

@@CRIMSONANT1 It was Labour who started the construction of HS2 and too far gone to cancel after building the Colne Valley Viaduct, the Chiltern Tunnels two of the largest contructions in the UK, the buliding of the Delta Junction on the edge of Birmingham and the construction of Birmingham Curzon Street, Birmingham Interchange Stations and London OOC Stations plus the start of the HS2 Maintainance and administration facilities at Washwood Heath in Birmingham, nar it won't be cancelled my man

@@peterwilliamallen1063 .. you're correct but over the years, Labour have come to their senses & accepted that the rising costs of this massive white elephant have become totally unsustainable & in a January interview, Sir Keir Starmer stated that when (not if), Labour win the next election, they have no plans whatsoever to revive the Northern leg because .. "it was not possible to do as the government had blown the budget & contracts are going to be cancelled". Just because huge amounts of money have been spent on current infrastructure means nothing. In the USA, tunnels, bridges, tracks etc had already been built at huge cost for a rail project in New Jersey before the governor pulled the plug on the project because of the cost continually rising. Fingers crossed the same happens here 😉

@@CRIMSONANT1 Why would labour cancel it when they are the ones that started it and the conservatives have the track record of cancelling nearly all of it?

Just to mention back In 2009 a in ception we were under a labour government Mr Brown

Nothing was said on the Video of Birmingham being in the North, all you heard was music !!!

dafuq?

I know,but do not care fed up with HS2 being indicated in the north when it will end in the midlands !

Actually many people in Birmingham will benefit from HS2. parents now live in Marston Green on the main line from Euston to Birmingham. Biggest problem with trains for them is the delays where there train is held up for the intercity trains from Euston. HS2 will mean that many of those intercity can be redirected onto HS2 providing more capacity to run local commuter trains. This frees up platform slots in New St allowing more commuter services. The Camp Hill line being reopened to passenger and additional stations can use these slots that freed up. That will also reduce the congestion of the direct line from kings Norton to new st allowing improved services for cross city line service. With the delta then no reason that the trains continuing up to Manchester and beyond cannot be routed into Curzon street and then upto Manchester rather then into New Street. Those are the real benefits of HS2 as opposed to saving XX minutes to London. HS2 main issues have been 1.) people fixated on the XX minutes to London rather then free capacity for more commuter and freight. 2.) NIMBY down south massively escalating the costs with tunnels as opposed to original cheaper routing to be point where the northern sections cancelled though suspect could be reinstated later. 3.) unknowns such as the burial ground round Euston that correctly delayed whilst the bodies removed, the remains of the round house in Birmingham that delayed to allow archaeologists in. Protestors down Euston in the tunnels. All of these have added costs over and above the plan as well.

Every one who at present uses Avanti West Coast Trains on the WCML route to and from London will use the HS2 route when it opens as all train services operated by Avanti West Coast trains will be moved off the WCML to the HS2 route, and the station you refer to as Solihull Interchange is actually going to be Called Biringham Interchange to match upto Birmingham International Station and Birmingham Airport, the reason given is International next to it and National Travellers and National do not know anything about the Town of Solihull 8 miles away and the Station is in an area next to the Birmingham Boundry and is all ways refered to a Birmingham and Solihull Town has a Station in the Town Centre on the Chiltern Line between Birmingham Snow Hill and London Marylebone

Yes, those motorways are pretty awful, I agree.