Government 'not pursuing' HS1-HS2 rail link [Rail News]
Date: 02/12/2015
The UK government has said it is not pursuing the construction of a rail link between HS2 and HS1 and instead plans to improve pedestrian links between Euston and St Pancras stations. Presenting plans to accelerate construction of HS2 beyond Birmingham to Crewe, the government quietly quashed speculation about the possibility of connecting the corridor with HS1. HS2 said in the summer that it was looking at options to join up the two railways. Original plans had included a single-track link between HS1 and HS2, but this was scrapped shortly after Sir David Higgens was appointed as chairman in 2014. [From Richard Buckby]
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