Crossrail connection planned to the West Coast Main Line
In a case of better late than never, the announcement of a DfT study into a connection between Crossrail and the West Coast Main Line is most welcome. This concept emerged … Read more › “Buckinghamshire is to be an HS2 beneficiary”
On 23rd April 2013, HS2 Ltd proposed a new 9km tunnel for the section of HS2 between North Acton and Northolt. The original plan was to use the largely disused right-of-way of what was once the Great Western Railway’s main … Read more › “With HS2 now to be tunnelled through Ealing, why not use the surface rail corridor to solve a number of other problems?”
A new report from Greengauge 21 says that it is essential that high-speed rail should serve Heathrow Airport directly, but that the HS2 scheme linking London and the West Midlands should not be compromised to achieve this.… Read more › “The Heathrow Opportunity”
A Greengauge 21 proposition for a new high-speed railway linking London, Heathrow, Birmingham and the North West, published in 2007. … Read more › “High-Speed Two: a Proposition by Greengauge 21”
