SIR - There has been much talk about an underground station for Bradford.

One possibility is to run the HS2 trains on from Leeds to lay over in Bradford in the same way as Pendolinos lay over in Wolverhampton.

If delays aren’t built up over the day, trains must arrive at their terminus with time to waste before their return journey. That is “laying over”. But there was no mention of this possibility and for it to work HS2 would have to enter Leeds from the east and that is HS2’s plan.

The focus is too much on connection to London; the West Riding also needs internal connections and to other non-London centres.

HS2 cannot be started soon because no design for Euston station has been agreed. That delay might be used as an opportunity to start HS3, it has local support and there is objection to HS2 in London and the Chilterns; might there be good sense in starting where it is wanted?

Am I being paranoid thinking the “powers that be” are not likely to want money, focus and effort to go north when it should go to the “heart of things” in the South? 

Michael Bell, Cambridge Avenue, Forest Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne