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Latest 6 monthly report to Parliament published... 10 Platform Euston confirmed - being spun as "more efficient." Phase2a "Delivery Into Service (DiS)" range has a later end date - 2030-2034. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/hs2-6-monthly-report-to-parliament-october-2021

Not without knocking down a tranche of properties in Wells House Road (and a new bridge) for the approach tracks Time to let this go - a Chiltern line platform at Old Oak just isn't going to happen no matter how hard we might wish for it. (Though that's a statement that may not age well!) I'd...

If you mean create an overlay of the route alignment, the Govt. has provided such (and much more besides.) Search for "HS2 GIS Data" and you should be able to find them. There's a lot of detail available so it's best not to load it all up (if you do GE takes forever to start.) I have the...

Schedule 17 Application for the OOC station (20/0012/HS2OPDC) contains some indicative timescales and indications of the construction method/sequencing. Here's a link to the "Written Statement For Information"...

Those tracks and the shed are in the way of the future GWML platforms and approaches. I've no idea of the programme, but presumably the sooner the old Hex infrastructure is out the way, the sooner they can start work on the new GWML side of the station infrastructure. At least the Western end -...

I tend to agree with you. The information vacuum is of course leading to a lot of speculation from all sides and I cannot help thinking there is also a good degree of "newspaper diplomacy" occurring in that all sides of the argument(s) are using the media airwaves to lobby for their preferred...

"The papers" (and the MSM in general) have been reporting the HS2 is about to be cancelled by the next Tory Leader/PM/Chancellor/Government for 11 years. Yet if I ride a bus to Ruislip, I can see it being constructed. Having been wrong every time so far, maybe "the papers" are desperate to save...

I tend to think of the four/six tracking around the Birmingham delta junction and Interchange station as a function of the junction design allowing trains to achieve routes without conflict and a set of "acceleration/deceleration" lanes for trains calling at Interchange station rather than...

There's some serious spinning going on there in the reportage. If you can spare the nearly two hours needed to sit through it dear reader, I suggest listening to what Street and Thurston actually said (in context) rather than relying on "quote mining" by partisan press. Anyone that interested...

Not "official" and not the whole route, but YouTuber "Michael Warner" posts some overflight videos between Burton Green and the "Kenilworth Gap" every so often. There's a few years worth to look back through at time of posting, though there's not a great deal to see in the older ones. Here's...

If they keep reporting it often enough, then I guess over time the effects of inflation will mean it eventually become true for the out-turn cost. If there's enough die hard NIMBY's are still around, no doubt to a chorus of "we told you so."

BBC still being dishonest about the "106Bn pound price tag." (Notwithstanding they don't understand the difference between budget and cost.) Let me just grind a few more mm off my teeth. Anyone that wants the watch the Shapps speech unspun, it's on YouTube (it's wide ranging beyond just HS2 &...

The Crossrail web site TBM progress trackers were a bit "fanciful" in that they were updated infrequently, so a TBM would appear to not move for a few days/weeks then jump forward a significant amount. Some of the HS2 Community Engagement publications had indicative timelines for TBM progress...

Mace Dragados wins HS2 Birmingham Curzon Street station contract https://hs2inbirmingham.commonplace.is/news/mace-dragados-wins-hs2-birmingham-curzon-street-station-contract

Alas, I cannot claim auto-correct - I just plane got it wring :D

Thanks for that photo. The thought had occurred to me that, if they do go, the direction of least resistance would be upwards! Another thought I had was that maybe because less surface is exposed to direct sunlight (ie just the crown and not the webs and feet) maybe they would heat up less...

The "Roahl Dahl Wood" (Jones Hill Wood) is not actually the wood that inspired The Fantastic Mr Fox - JHW is 2 miles from where Dahl lived in Great Missenden, (and literally in the middle of nowhere.) The actual "TFMF wood" was thought to be on his doorstep (according to the Dahl museum) in Gt...

As the title says basically - is anything special or different done to cope with thermal expansion/contraction of the rails for "tramway" track buried in road surfaces..?

I was once waiting for an LUL train at Harrow on the Hill and "sensed" something by my feet. When I looked down there was a fox sat there. We waited for the train to arrive and as it did, Charlie wandered down the platform and got on. Cue announcement from the train operator; "I'm sorry ladies...

We wouldn't want any kind of catastrophe would we. I'll get my coat.