Lengthy detour

Further to Nigel Briggs and Geoff Collier’s letter in last week’s Courier applauding the Government’s go ahead for HS2, their obvious enthusiasm for this project may be tempered slightly by the fact that to enjoy the benefits of high speed travel to London on the HS2 line, they will surely have to first travel to Birmingham to catch it! I can’t imagine this will cut much if anything off the current journey time to London compared to catching a normal train from Leamington or Warwick. - Richard Malin, via email.