[dspillett]

> York is a good example of how building high-ish speed railways that actually take people somewhere they want to go, leads to people using those railways.

Not just directly from York: there are many trains stopping both here and Leeds, giving us, for example, indirect-but-easy access to some of the north further west (smaller lines to/through Shipley/Keighley/Skipton, Ilkley/Settle/Carlisle) which I find handy when I want to go run around the Dales, and that people from those areas presumably find handy for access to the east coast main line North & South.

York's rail connectivity is one of the (many) advantages of living here (despite the key disadvantage of housing costs & such) for me, as I don't drive.