>green: LGV Picardie is built, connecting to LGV Nord and High Speed 1 (fuck Lille)
>pink: East Anglia to Cornwall via Narritch, Cambridge, Stratford International, Reading, Bristol, Exeter, and Plymouth (fuck Dartmoor)
>light blue: Stratford International to Gretna via Birmingham and Manchester
>dark blue A: Newcastle to Liverpool via Leeds and Manchester
>dark blue B: Newcastle to Swansea via Cardiff, Birmingham, Nottingham, Sheffield and Leeds
>purple: Liverpool to Dublin via Holyhead
>red A: Gretna to Belfast (underneath the unexploded WW1+2 ordnance and radioactive waste currently in the way)
>red B: Gretna-Aberdeen via Glasgow and Perth (fuck Dundee)
>orange: Belfast-Cork via Dublin and Waterford
All do-able today in one way or another, of course, less the Belfast fixed link. Still, dream big, turn on infinite money mode, and draw things with crayons