>>2024514Crewe is a 'through station', where three different mainlines all converge at a single station - which is how Crewe went from a tiny village to a bustling railway-town metropolis, back in the day - and there's room for a few extra platforms to be added alongside the existing infrastructure, so it's an ideal spot for the high-speed track to finish. The plan is for HS2 trains to then carry on along the existing West Coast Main Line up to Scotland, following a few unblocking-the-existing-bottlenecks works along the way.
