While we're a long, long way from having those babies (a Japanese JR700 bullet train) operating UK domestic services, we've now got what appears to be finality on the broad shape of UK high speed rail. Apparently transport secretary Philip Hammond is going to announce today the adoption of a "Y" shaped route, rather than the cheaper reverse-"S" preferred by Labour.
Routing via Heathrow also appears to be a dead idea -- which is sensible -- and, instead, a spur will be built so that one southbound train in five will terminate at Heathrow rather than central London.
Heathrow is so badly designed that any railway station there would anyway require the majority of passengers to get on another train to go to their terminal, so calling it a "Heathrow" station is pretty moot anyway. More like "Heathrow Junction" -- which was what the original proposals anyway gave.
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