EWR Meets HS2 May 2024

An aerial view of the area where EWR meets the ever controversial HS2 at Calvert in Buckinghamshire.

EWR is a project to connect the university cities of Oxford and Cambridge, although the section between Bedford and Cambridge is in some jeopardy. Parts of this line is the same route as the old Varsity Line, mostly closed to passenger services in the 1960s.

HS2 is the UK rail industry's vanity project to have yet another line linking London and Birmingham at huge expense.

The sleep villages of Calvert and Steeple Claydon is where these 2 lines cross each other, and where HS2 will have a huge maintenance depot, and is roughly halfway along the route between London and Birmingham.


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