- Location
- Toronto, ON, CA
Very feasible IMO. The Olympia site was a bit north of Kensington at White City close to the site of the OTL under-construction Old Oak Common station, almost adjacent to the West Coast mainline. Even now the Old Oak Common site is very undeveloped, in the 1970s the whole area was pretty much desolate.To steer things back to the original topic, one thing I am wondering is what an earlier high-speed railway would entail for London's railway terminals, and indeed the same for other cities' main stations. Let's assume the proto-HS1 of the 70s is built like what @Callan suggested. How feasible is the plan for a Kensington (Olympia) rail hub? It seems like it'd still get pushed to St. Pancras or another northern station. If they were intent on a cross-city connection it seems easier to shift the works east to run trains through a revamped Snow Hill Tunnel.
This is a good overview of the contemporary plans.