How does it release capacity when all the intercity stations that are bypassed will still need some kind of a train service. See the route map on the official HS2 website.
Since the end of the war, railway lines have been closing more rapidly and accelerated after Beeching's very proper closures. It is the deliberate idiocy of building on the closed railway lines by railway enthusiasts, unions, workers, managers and politicians that is still ongoing (with the 120 Kms Black Country Mainline) that has meant that a capacity of about one-third has been lost on the railway network.
Capacity only increases and is greatly enhanced for the plane flyers between London, Brum, Manchester. They have a choice of either plane or train. It gives them an additional transport mode and an unjustifiable duplication like Metro and Sprint do for bus passengers. Chris Packham is, therefore, right when he says it is more of a plane than a useful train service!
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