HS2 Washwood Heath depot contract signed

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HS2 admits it got its numbers wrong as Birmingham train depot let at more than three times original £250m budget

Revised price tag of £856m means cost of Washwood Heath scheme has gone up by nearly 250%
HS2 has admitted it got its numbers wrong for what a new train depot and control centre on the outskirts of Birmingham would cost with the job at Washwood Heath now set to be £856m – more than three times its original budget.
The job has finally been let to a joint venture of Taylor Woodrow and Aureos – the renamed civils business that Keltbray sold two years ago – more than six years after it was first advertised.

HS2 has finally signed the contract to build Washwood Heath depot - I wonder how long that will take to build!

 

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Taylor Woodrow of course built the present Euston station in 1966 (and Heathrow Terminal 1, now closed and being redeveloped).

 

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HS2 admits it got its numbers wrong as Birmingham train depot let at more than three times original £250m budget


HS2 has finally signed the contract to build Washwood Heath depot - I wonder how long that will take to build!

Its not as though its a rush job.

 

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Does the contract state if the depot is for 400 or 450 metre long trains ?

 

[Snow1964]

HS2 has now issued a video about the depot and construction

 

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The HS2 Washwood Heath site, taking from my plane from Birmingham Airport. It may well soon look very different.

 

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So we'll have three major rail control centres within 30 miles of each other in the West Midlands.
Washwood Heath is less than 2 miles from Birmingham ROC at Saltley - which controls virtually all of the WM regional network, and with Rugby ROC (controlling essentially the whole of the classic WCML south of Crewe) less than 30 miles from both.
I know the grand plan was for Washwood Heath to control all of the ultimate HS2 network, but you'd think there would be a more joined-up plan for the truncated HS2 south of Handsacre.
Maybe this managed to avoid the current project reset.
Where will WCML control (operator/infrastructure) sit when HS2 opens?

 

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So we'll have three major rail control centres within 30 miles of each other in the West Midlands.
Washwood Heath is less than 2 miles from Birmingham ROC at Saltley - which controls virtually all of the WM regional network, and with Rugby ROC (controlling essentially the whole of the classic WCML south of Crewe) less than 30 miles from both.
I know the grand plan was for Washwood Heath to control all of the ultimate HS2 network, but you'd think there would be a more joined-up plan for the truncated HS2 south of Handsacre.
Maybe this managed to avoid the current project reset.
Where will WCML control (operator/infrastructure) sit when HS2 opens?

I'd put significant cash on HS2 control sitting somewhere else, probably Rugby. Easy cost saving.