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Grimshaw's London Euston HS2 station will be shrunk to just six platforms under Rishi Sunak's latest vision for the flagging project.
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Three more platforms could be cut from Grimshaw's Euston HS2 terminus. Grimshaw's London Euston HS2 station could be shortened to seven platforms, a leaked document suggests.
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The estimated £4.8bn cost of HS2s endangered Euston terminus could balloon further unless the government becomes clear what it is trying to achieve, the public accounts committee has warned. In a highly critical report, MPs on the committee said the Department for Transport (DfT) was yet to establish the design and expectations for the station against what it was willing to spend, despite spending more than eight years planning and designing the London terminus.
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Human remains from St James's Gardens, Euston, reinterred at Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey, Prayer service held to mark completion of new memorial.
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NAO warns cost of station in London almost double initial budget and pause on work could push it higher. The cost of HS2s revised and postponed London Euston terminus has almost doubled to £4.8bn since 2020, according to the the public spending watchdog, with millions wasted on botched decisions. The government announced last month that work on the high-speed lines central London station would be paused. But the National Audit Office warned on Monday that the move would lead to additional costs and potentially higher costs overall.
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Interactive exhibition is open from 15th March to 23rd April at St James's Church, PiccadillyThe lives of Londoners buried in St James's Gardens, Euston, revealed as part of HS2s archaeology programme.
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Extra trains could be coming down the track for Lockerbie station. The Grand Union Trains company has applied to run a new route between Stirling and London Euston from 2025. And eight trains a day are proposed to stop in Lockerbie as a result. Grand Union has applied to the Office of Rail and Road ...
(Permalink) Grand Union Trains Lockerbie London Euston Stirling  Lockerbie: Road approach to the 1847 station at Lockerbie in June 2013. View is north east from Station Road. The roofless section in the left background once formed the eastern terminus of the Dumfries, Lochmab ... |
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In terms of convenience, Edinburgh Waverley, with its famous in and out ramps, was pretty much the perfect station for motorists in the post-war era. Connecting the English capital and Perth via Edinburgh Waverley, the first car-sleeper rail services debuted in 1955 and allowed Scots motorists the freedom of taking their car on their holidays while avoiding the gruelling 450-mile drive south.
(Permalink) Birmingham Brockenhurst Carlisle Carmarthen Dover Edinburgh Waverley Fishguard Harbour Fort William Glasgow Inverness Kensington Olympia London Euston Motorail Penzance Perth Plymouth Stirling Stranraer  Perth Carriage Sidings: Loaded wagons of the Perth-London Car Ferry Service at Perth Caledonian Road Depot in the mid to late 70s.  Edinburgh Waverley: May 1995 saw the withdrawal of the Sleeper/Motorail service from Edinburgh to Plymouth. Car carrying vans, ready for business in the bay platforms at Waverley east end.
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West Coast main line passengers are being warned of major delays after 25,000-volt overhead cables which power trains came down outside London Euston station.
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Local community encouraged to come along to feedback events, which begin on Wednesday 30 November. HS2 Ltd release new images that show more elements of the iconic station design.
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£105m Euston HS2 station design work can no longer be used, DfT admits. The Department for Transport (DfT) has revealed 'significant elements' of original design work on HS2's Euston station 'can no longer be used' after the decision was taken to scale back the Grimshaw-led scheme.
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HS2's ambitions for a new Grimshaw-designed station at Euston were downgraded from world-class to highly functional and affordable, according to board papers.
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A new video projection screen has been installed at London Euston, to remember the stations most famous (albeit long-lost) architectural icon.
(Permalink) Doric Gateway London Euston 'Doric Arch'  London Euston: The Doric Arch which stood at Euston, seen in a July 1960 view. |
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Designs updated from 2015 show how the major London transport hub will be transformed with the arrival of HS2. 3,000 jobs and millions of pounds of business contract opportunities set to be unlocked by HS2 construction.
(Permalink) HS2 London Euston  London Euston: Designs updated from 2015 show how the major London transport hub will be transformed with the arrival of HS2. |
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Glasgwegians are being urged to check their West Coast Main Line journeys, as engineering works are set to disrupt rail services between London and Glasgow.
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The cost of delivering the first phase of a controversial high-speed rail project, HS2, is set to soar by £1.3 billion, due to delays caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Avanti West Coast vowed to mount another bid to break the London-Glasgow rail record after its attempt today failed by just 21 seconds.
(Permalink) Avanti West Coast Glasgow Central London Euston Rail Speed Record  Bay Horse: On the ultimately unsuccessful attempt to break the Euston to Glasgow speed record, 390044 'Royal Scot' hurries through Bay Horse on 17th June 2021. This charity fund raising event was a joint event b ... |
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An attempt to break the 36-year-old record for the fastest train journey between London and Glasgow will be made on Thursday (June 17).
(Permalink) Avanti West Coast Glasgow Central London Euston Rail Speed Record Bay Horse: On the ultimately unsuccessful attempt to break the Euston to Glasgow speed record, 390044 'Royal Scot' hurries through Bay Horse on 17th June 2021. This charity fund raising event was a joint event b ... |
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A new rail speed record between London and Glasgow is to be attempted by Avanti West Coast, sources have told The Scotsman.
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London Euston has become the first railway station in the country to provide the latest passenger information using British Sign Language.
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Feline was a whisker away from a 125mph ride when it was spotted at Euston station on Tuesday evening. You hear about delays from leaves on the line, maybe even the occasional swan, but on Tuesday evening a cat was discovered on a train roof at London Euston station “ a whisker away from hitching a 125mph ride up north. The tabby was spotted curled up on top of an Avanti West Coast train about half an hour before it was due to depart for Manchester at 9pm and refused to move.
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Subterranean protest against high-speed rail line lasted 31 days in tunnel near London station. The anti-HS2 tunnel protest close to Euston station in central London has finally ended after the ninth climate activist emerged from underground. The subterranean environmental protest has lasted for 31 days, one of the longest in UK protest history, although not quite breaking the record of the 40-day tunnel protest in Essex in 2000.
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New timelapse shows progress of work outside Euston station. Preparations for Londons high speed rail terminus at Euston has reached a new milestone as the two office towers outside the existing station are now at ground level. Grant Thornton House and One Euston Square designed by prolific and divisive modernist architect Richard Seifert have made way for the new high speed station, with more space for passengers and better links to the London Underground.
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A Grade-II listed statue of railway pioneer Robert Stephenson has been removed and put into safe storage while Euston station undergoes its major HS2 redevelopment.
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The cost of HS2 should be slashed by limiting the speed of trains and making its London terminus Old Oak Common rather than Euston, according to a critical House of Lords report, which warns that better northern rail connections could be lost if the project blows its budget. In a report that could stoke further doubts over high-speed rail after Conservative leadership candidates discussed axing the project, the Lords economic affairs committee said it was far from convinced that the £55.7bn price was credible, and the government should publish a new cost-benefit analysis.
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The remains of explorer Captain Matthew Flinders have been identified by archaeologists working on the HS2 project in a London burial ground.
Captain Flinders led the first circumnavigation of Australia and is credited with naming the country. Some 61,000 skeletons will be removed from St James's Gardens, where the station for the HS2 rail route will be built near London Euston station. A recently discovered coffin showed the captain was buried on 23 July 1814. [Railscot note: St James' Gardens were located on the west side of Euston station, just over Cardington Street. The churchyard was encroached on by the enlargement of the west side of the station in 1887.] (Permalink) HS2 London Euston Matthew Flinders St James's Gardens |
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Archaeological work to remove 45,000 skeletons from a burial site to make way for HS2 construction has begun.
Some 61,000 burials took place at St James's Gardens between 1788 and 1853, beside what is now London Euston station. Protests and a memorial service were held before the site was closed to create a new terminus station. HS2 said the dig in Camden would 'add to our understanding of how this city transformed'. The burial ground is one of 60 archaeological sites along the route between between London and Birmingham which is being explored prior to the construction of the £55.7bn high-speed rail line. (Permalink) HS2 London Euston St James's Gardens  London Euston: Statue of Robert Stephenson, by Carlo Marochetti, dating from 1870, outside Euston Station.  Euston: Class 86 and 87 locomotives stand ready to take WCML expresses north out of Euston in March 1976.  Euston: Looking across the platforms at the north end of Euston station on Monday 3 March 1991. |
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