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This article in the Guardian reports that the HS2 Chairman at the Rail Industry Association conference has today used this example as why HS2 phase 1 is so costly. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/07/cost-of-shed-to-protect-bat-colony-near-hs2-has-topped-100m-chair-says I am sure...

A plan for a new high-speed rail line linking Birmingham and Manchester has been unveiled, claiming to deliver most of the benefits of the scrapped northern leg of HS2 at significantly cheaper cost and with only slightly longer journey times. The 50-mile track would run from where the HS2 line...

The Portishead scheme has been approved. Background details and link to decision in tweet https://twitter.com/RailfutureNetws/status/1592284273041895424?t=tGXJulPW2CZD-I5Ybw8tTQ&s=19 1668497795 A thread showing photos of the route...

Mods, please reopen and move this post/merge thread to existing thread https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/beaulieu-park-station-funding-approved.189267/ The latest hurdle for the reopening of Beaulieu Park station has passed with detailed planning permission granted by Chelmsford council...

This unit appears to have suffered in contact with some buffers. Video is in attached tweet. https://twitter.com/satupfront/status/1533511200645971970?t=kDB8LElu2DNrv4imbd0d1g&s=19 I wonder if can be repaired at Crown point?

Original thread: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/beaulieu-park-station.117344/ This in response to the local MP stating funding has at last been unlocked by the Treasury to build it. https://www.essexlive.news/news/essex-news/huge-update-chelmsfords-second-train-3221523

Mods note Split from http://www.railforums.co.uk/showthread.php?t=127749 Well we will find out in August how Stratford copes with 60,000 fans leaving the Olympic Stadium :)

Alas another Network Rail infrastructure cock up. The High Output Ballast Train operating on the GMEL has seriously bent an original GER Brick underbridge. :oops::roll: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-33408093