I swear some people think the UK and specially London should be preserved as some sort of living museum.
Chris (Rail Focus)
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Chris (Rail Focus)
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Freelance transport & engineering journalist and railway campaigner. Youtube.com/@Rail_Focus
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- People seemingly only now realising the cost that has been imposed by a small but vocal group of people who made it their mission to make the construction of HS2 as difficult as possible. Not to mention the cost of legal battles and additional security to keep workers safe.Tell me this isn't the most frustrating thing you've ever seen. We're burying most of this train line for literally no reason at all. Ballooning costs, just so people don't have to look at a train in a flat field.
00:00 - No Sh** Sherlock. Building HS2 will pay for itself, the more we build the better the return. #HS2
- 'Just bury cables at sea', noone would possibly oppose that....... 'Chaos' feared in planned Morocco power cable link
- Comments on yesterday's video "it's not too late to cancel HS2" we can just leave half built structures all over the place 🤦🙄
- Ah yes the "emergency vehicle" argument. 🤷
Replying to @NewStatesmanIf cars and trucks are banished from the pedestrian village, how are medics in ambulances to get to victims of heart attacks? How are the infirm elderly to be taken by relatives and friends to medical appointments? - I'll say one thing, I've never seen so much support for building HS2! It's almost like the penny has finally dropped. Now only if Labour would realise how vital Phase 2a is!
- £32,000,000 for a 2 platform station? 👀Planning application submitted for new £32 million Golborne rail station railmagazine.com/news/2024/11/2…
- The gap on platform 4 at Chester is ridiculous. I knew it was bad, but never seemed that bad when boarding a Voyager.
- It truly is appalling that a man with so little understanding of how railways work was allowed to have such a big impact on shaping railways in the North. If a railway expert is a "groupie" what does it make a man who made it his life's work to see #HS2 cancelled.Belatedly seen HS2 groupies' absurd denials of my statement that you could run 400m trains to Manchester even without Phase 2 (sorry I don't look at Twitter much.) You only need longer platforms - part of a new station - money for which was included in the Network North plan.
- Misrepresenting what was said then limiting replies. What a strawman weasel.Even HS2 supporters are less than convinced by today's report.
- Although Sunak "Paused" work on Euston in 2023 it seems #HS2 has been doing everything within the "safe stop" remit to build as much as possible. I'm hoping they've done enough to 'lock in' the grade separated approach.
- "a steering group" are they having a laugh? We can't afford to talk about an alternative for another 5 years. There's a viable route available now, which we need to start building now. I will wait to read the report, but this isn't looking good. #HS2"Doing nothing is not an option" New report claims new privately funded West Mids-Manchester rail link is possible Read More 👇 railmagazine.com/news/2024/09/1…
