Britain’s rail network constrained by history | Letters

Simon Jenkins (Opinion, 21 July) still doesn’t understand what HS2 is about. It was perhaps foolish to call the project “High Speed 2”, so that many people think it’s about getting from London to points north more quickly. But its main raison d’être is increasing the capacity of the railways. When in the 1960s we ran out of capacity on the roads and built the M1 and M6, people didn’t see the reason for these as being able to get somewhere by car more qui