Topic: HS2

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
|Comment|author: Simon Walton
A computer generated image of the HS2 station at Piccadilly in Manchester showing the large plaza and the barrel roof design

HS2 surgery is the wrong choice say leading academics

A paper, credited to several university professors specialising in the rail industry, has warned of the unforeseen consequences of abandoning the HS2 high speed rail project between Birmingham and Manchester. They say amputating HS2’s northern...Read more
|Comment|author: Simon Walton
A computer generated image of the HS2 station at Piccadilly in Manchester showing the large plaza and the barrel roof design

HS2: Now Manchester faces the axe

Eastern Leg no more. Euston no more. Now the The UK government is considering even more cutbacks to the HS2 high-speed rail project. With Leeds, Sheffield and Nottingham already off the timetable, now the prestige...Read more
|1 comment|author: Simon Walton