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There are local council elections in Bucks in May 2021. Wannabe local councillors need to be seen to be "doing their bit" to stop HS2 in the eyes of their electorate. The reality is they cannot. The HS2 Phase1 Act does not give them the power to veto anything. Schedule 17 powers are severely...

I haven't watched the presentation as it's likely I've already seen all the source images and I have little enthusiasm to sit through what I suspect will be an hour of public sulking and "how terrible, how terrible, how terrible," but as I flicked through a bit, the images looked familiar. For...

Surely it's just a matter of moving the entrance - I think I've a spell that does it somewhere...

I don't believe it's travelators, just a sub surface foot passage, c/w ramps, gate lines, etc. as required. I doubt the distance is long enough to warrant travellators. There's a page in the following presentation that accompanied the HS2 Phase 1 Bill during Lords Parliamentary scrutiny that...

Helicopter flight from Northolt tube station to West Hyde along the line of route and a few laps of West Hyde site.

On Chipping Warden - yes it does, at time of posting you can see most of it on Google Earth.

It's a bit of a shame for Bucks. constituency that for most of the time HS2 Phase1 was being considered in Parliament, their M.P. was Mr Speaker which essentially meant they had no voice in Parliament and had to rely on M.P's of neighbouring constituencies to effectively speak for them. Of...

IIRC, didn't SNCF say something along the lines of, "Learn from our mistakes and don't build intermediate stations to buy off local NIMBY'ism. Use your HSR to do what it's designed to do, move large amounts of people between the major conurbations."

Since HS2 services are meant to be "all seated," I wonder how that would work? I suppose there's still plenty of time to work out the details of perturbation planning. 1611915234 Depending on which platform they axe it's not going to make that much difference to the Euston throat topology - it...

"Champaign Swampies"..? ;-)

Transport Questions in the House Of ommons (28/01/2021)

Transport Questions in House of Commons (28/01/2021)

Litchfield...? That's a seriously long spur off HS2. Dam them spell checkers - I presume you meant Lichfield..! :) [/PEDANT]

Stricly speaking not Phase 1 construction, but readers may be interested... House Of Lords Select Committee on Phase 2A has completed it's deliberations: Committee concludes work and announces report publication date - Committees - UK Parliament

Top end 98Bn...? Where did that come from - wasn't the budget (@2020) meant to be 82-88Bn...?

Maybe the 2013 "fly though" video of the route will help - IIRC it annunciated various feed points, ATFS stations and so on. Of course, the vid is now well out of date as the design has evolved, but it might serve as a jumping off point alongside the Environment Statement mapbooks if they are...

OOC is already under construction, so I think we can bank on most is not all GWML trains stopping there in future. I presumed that WRATH wasn't to facilitate "fast" (or inter-city) services adding an LHR stop. I'd assumed it'd be a case of change at Reading or Maidenhead (for example) to pick up...

As I understand it, TBM's are like race cars - they're built "just good enough" to do the job required. Some bits of them are salvaged and reused, but substantially each TBM is built bespoke for the job in hand then thrown away (sometimes literally - cutters get buried for example.) Not to...

The Vermont Hotel in Newcastle overlooks the eastern junction and station approaches - get a high western corner room there and you won't be getting any sleep until the trains stop running. Though for full disclosure, the night I stayed there was during a 38 degree heatwave and the windows most...

It's pretty much as you describe,; the "Chester Road" roundabout above the M42 is essentially being moved into the area of the Interchange station "triangle" of land, and the connecting roads amended accordingly. This article from Birmingham Live has a fly through of the revised road layout and...