Controversial Calvert crossover as HS2 and EWR meet
Britain’s two contentious and controversial independently promoted rail developments have met. The crossing point for HS2 and East West Rail is in rural Buckinghamshire, and civil engineering has been completed on the grade-separated crossing. The hugely expensive high-speed rail line HS2, between Birmingham and London, will dive under the track of East West Rail, a project to connect the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge. In a fanfare of celebration, the two projects have completed their collaboration at Calvert.
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