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HS2 reveals design for Amersham vent shaft headhouse
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HS2 have released images of the design for the Amersham vent shaft to provide ventilation and emergency access to the line’s Chiltern tunnel.
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Hydrogen train trial for UK by 2020
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Following the recent announcement of the Government’s intention to remove diesel trains from the network by 2040, KEITH FENDER looks at how Alstom has developed a hydrogen-powered train that will lead to a trial in the UK within two years. In early November, Alstom and the government of the German state of Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony)…
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Enormous HS2 Tunnel Boring Machines set for 10-mile tunnel excavation
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HS2 reveal images of the first two completed giant Tunnel Boring Machines to be used in the first phase of the high speed rail project.
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HS2 launches race for high voltage power supply systems
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Following on from the government’s green light for construction, HS2 have begun the search for contractors to deliver the high voltage power supply systems.
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New HS2 station set to reduce carbon emissions by 55%
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The new HS2 Curzon Street station is set to reduce carbon emissions by an unprecedented 55%.
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Scotland launch plans to decarbonise rail passenger services by 2035
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Scotland has announced plans to decarbonise the country’s rail passenger services by 2035.
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Major Birmingham station receives £12m regeneration fund
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The government has pledged £12 million of investment towards the regeneration of the University of Birmingham station.
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HS2 appoints new board members ‘to heighten oversight’
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Grant Shapps announced this week the appointment of three non-executive directors to the HS2 board to heighten oversight and scrutiny of the UK’s high speed rail project.
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What’s inside Issue 269 of Heritage Railway?
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Steam is back for the summer! Inside our brand new issue we take a look at railways restarting in time for the high season, after months of closures.
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HS2 Minister responds to Transport Select Committee
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HS2 Minister Andrew Stephenson has responded to a letter from the Transport Select Committee last month in his own letter about the next steps for HS2.
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