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My hope is that as soon as it opens, it becomes very clear that more platforms are needed so they build a new station, connecting hs1 and 2 at the same time with said station.
I suspect that's some thinking internally too. Wait until you have more political capital.
Unfortunately, at the moment the government isn't even committed to going past Birmingham so at the moment we paid a lot of money to slow down the west coast main line in order to relieve capacity for Milton Keynes. So I guess in terms of priorities I'd say getting it up to north Scotland more important