Topic: High Speed 2

Different centuries meet on HS2 project

Britain’s troubled but impressive high-speed rail engineering project, HS2, has crossed paths with the Grand Union Canal. The twenty-first-century railway project has been mired in controversy, and now it has met with an infrastructure project...Read more

03-04-2024|Comment|author: Simon Walton

HS2 preparations in West Midlands speedily spans motorway

Contractors working for HS2 have removed a 4,000-tonne bridge over the M42 motorway. The work is to make way for the construction of the new high-speed line across the motorway near the Interchange Station construction...Read more

19-02-2024|Comment|author: Simon Walton

Aerial view of the civil engineering works for the crossing of East West Rail over the HS2 line

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...Read more

28-11-2023|Comment|author: Simon Walton

Mark-Thurston-CEO-of-HS2-Ltd-at-the-M42-first-bridge-installation

HS2 cost projections and controversies still raise questions

Britain’s ambitious plans for a high-speed railway network have hit the buffers before even getting out of the station. The project has been savagely cut back from the once sweeping network, connecting almost all of...Read more

21-11-2023|Comment|author: Simon Walton