Where could you travel using HS2?
HS2 will provide the opportunity to start journeys south from Yorkshire from Leeds, Sheffield or York, but the only end destination cities will be either London or Birmingham.From the very few stations on the HS2 line, linking services are expected to be created to allow other places, some currently served by direct trains, to be reached a little more quickly by changing from HS2 to a local service to complete the journey.
Because journeys from Sheffield will use trains which run over existing lines and call at Chesterfield in Derbyshire, travel times south from Leeds and Sheffield are roughly the same to Toton, but take 6 minutes longer than Leeds from Sheffield to Euston. Journeys from York also start off along existing tracks and will generally take around 8 minutes longer than the Leeds time.
The HS2 routes would potentially also allow trains to operate from Yorkshire to Birmingham Curzon Street in central Birmingham calling only at the East Midlands Hub.
The HS2 Effect is a transport study presented for general guidance using time estimates based on current rail routes and their best journey times and times proposed for future HS2 services. Revisions in these estimates may occur from time to time as a result of changed train timetables or altered projections of the HS2 developer.