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Re:A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station by chrisseaton on Thursday August 22, 2019 @07:12AM (#20766755)
> buying some blocks of cheap farmland in the middle of nowhere, adding a HS2 station so the land was 20 minutes from central London, then selling the land to property developers. Obviously you could only add one or two towns, to avoid creating slow stopping services

I don't think any such land ('cheap', 'middle of nowhere', '20 mins from central London') exists in the UK.

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Re:A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station by michaelt on Thursday August 22, 2019 @07:37AM (#20766938)
What I mean is they could buy land somewhere like the outskirts of Quainton [1] at the current "much more than 20 minutes from Euston" land price, then add a HS2 station that turns it into "20 minutes from Euston" land.

Or if Quainton is too expensive/green-belt-y, do the same at Wormleighton or Newton Purnell or somewhere else along the line.

[1] https://goo.gl/maps/idx4iCxQjVjEU5WCA

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Re:A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station by djmobley on Thursday August 22, 2019 @07:20AM (#20766818)
It’s called the Green Belt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Green_Belt

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Re:A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station by chrisseaton on Thursday August 22, 2019 @07:23AM (#20766840)
None of that land is remotely cheap, in the middle of nowhere, nor probably twenty minutes away even for a fast train.
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Re:A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station by isostatic on Friday August 23, 2019 @04:17AM (#20775474)
20 minutes from Old Oak Common / Crossrail, based on HS1 timings from Ebbsfleet (140mph), you'd be able to get out to around Quainton in 20 minutes.
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