HS2 EWR Calvert

[@mikehindson-evans159]

An excellent update - nice to see th grass growing, healing the scars and getting the railway(s) ready to merge back into the landscape when construction is over and commissioning has finished. Nicely done.

[@StephenWalker42]

Thanks for posting, it's such an interesting interaction, and amazing to see the grass growth....

[@lawrence18uk]

Kinda shame that there's no interchange station there... Maybe sometime.

[@davidpage4005]

All that money and destruction for 20 minutes journey time less.?

[@davecooper3238]

20 minutes is just bonus. The U.K. rail system is mostly 200 year old infrastructure. It desperately needs the increased capacity.

[@DrMikeOckhertz]

Shame nobody's going to use it. Most people can WFH now and the need to travel between cities has reduced. I get a Chiltern Line train to work that starts in Birmingham and terminates in Marylebone, central London. There are always free seats. Who's going to pay extra (HS2 haven't published ticket prices, but it won't be cheaper than current routes) for a train that gets to London 20 minutes faster than existing routes but terminates in West London, leaving you with ANOTHER journey to Central London that wipes out the time you gained? It'll never make a profit.

[@daveberry7136]

Those Chiltern trains are slow and expensive, they're commuter shuttle chuggers not express trains. That's why no-one uses them. Lichfield into Euston for the morning run is standing room only pretty much every day. Half the time / cost of your Chiltern nonsense!

[@DrMikeOckhertz]

@@daveberry7136 Do you seriously believe that after spending ONE HUNDRED BILLION pounds on a single train line that the ticket prices aren't going to be more than what you're paying now? A fraction of that money spent in the right place would have solved the Lichfield to Euston problem.

[@daveberry7136]

@@DrMikeOckhertz What nonsense. I thought WFH meant there wasn't a problem any more? Can you not keep your argument straight for more than one comment?

[@JT-nr2ss]

Well done for completely missing the point of HS2, which is capacity relief for legacy lines by removing intercity services from them

[@simontaylor2319]

I wonder why the tax payer has to pay for this white elephant - most will never use it. Almost all the rail network in this country was privately funded; why aren't the businesses who want it and will benefit shelling out the necessary lolly?. New hosprtals etc are what this country desperately needs, not select railways

[@davecooper3238]

It’s about extra capacity for what is basically a 200 year old system.