'This is a 21st century high-tech train service reliant on a bloke from Stoke running the length of a train.'
Rail experts say train drivers will have to 'sprint' the 200m length of a train in order to leave the station on time if services are forced into a cut-price surface turnback HS2 hub at Manchester Piccadilly. The Government’s plan for an above-ground terminus next to the existing station, with no platforms running through, means trains will have to turn around to depart.
Andrew Dixon, High Speed Rail programme co-ordinator for Manchester City Council, said: "With the underground option we are arguing for, you could run through services via the new Manchester Piccadilly station between Liverpool and Leeds. But because the overground option being proposed by government is a terminus station, trains would come in one way and passengers have to wait while the driver legged it to the other end of the train just so they could drive them back out the other way.
Crucially, a surface station means the Government’s previous plans could not be brought back to life in the future as the hub will hit full capacity from day one. This London 'super hub’ will be an 850-metre station with 14 platforms, six underground high-speed ones and eight conventional ones above ground, four of which will serve Crossrail. There will be no unsightly viaducts here; twin tunnels will take high speed trains east to the southern terminus at Euston and west to the outskirts of London.
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