Loose ends in London and Birmingham raise new fears over HS2’s route – and future
Mar 24, 2024
With its route map pruned, leaders in the north want other options, while in the capital, questions are growing over its Euston terminus – still a giant hole in the groundIn the vision of HS2 published by the government a decade ago, a gleaming new station should now be taking shape at Euston, with the first high-speed trains to whisk passengers from London to Birmingham just a couple of years away.Things have not, of course, quite panned out like that. The scars of the early works are evident in the area of central London surrounding the station: the vanished buildings, parks, trees, pubs and half of Drummond Street. Portholes on the hoardings that line the way to the remaining south Asian restaurants allow a view on to a mothballed site where a muddy Euston pond is forming. Continue reading...
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