All I was trying to point out is that on site today there is the same amount of space cleared that would have been needed to build phase one of the original 11 platform design, which is 6 platforms.
If it is in fact possible to get more than six platforms onto this land, then I was wondering why the original plan required this amount of land to be cleared. Surely, they wouldn’t have needed to clear so much space?
EDIT: Looking at this plan for the ten platform station, the currently cleared area gets you roughly the first 8 of the HS2 platforms.
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So perhaps some “squeezing” is possible on the cleared land, but it still appears that six platforms can’t be built on it without using most of the available space.
The only way you give back a significant amount of the cleared land is if another 2-4 platforms are demolished on the existing site. But would this be cheaper to do? How many more can Euston lose before services have to be removed?