London to Birmingham High Speed Rail Plans Unveiled
Dave BondApparently plans to create a high speed rail route from London to Birmingham through Chilterns has just been announced. This proposal would create 10,000 jobs, and it is also said that the train will be able to run at 225 miles per hour.
The government said today that their plans for a 225 mile per hour British high speed rail network will give people what they want. This network will include a detailed London to Birmingham route and create many jobs. The project itself will cost billions of pounds to finish. Lord Adonis, the transport secretary will be announcing the building of this ultra fast rail link. Construction on this new rail will start as soon as 2017. Most seem to agree that the rail should finally be done with the first phase by 2027.
Adonis is considering a London to Birmingham line that starts to London Euston station and does not go through Heathrow directly. Instead it will connect to Britain’s largest airport at a site on Old Oak Common in west London that will be called the Crossrail Interchange. The route will connect passengers to the airport via the £16 billion Crossrail route. This will link Heathrow to Canary Wharf via central London.
The route will then embark on its most controversial phase. This will bring the line through the Chiltern hills in Buckinghamshire. This is one of the 40 areas of outstanding natural beauty in England and Wales. The Chilterns Conservation Board has warned that swaths of the area could be trashed by this new route. However, the amount of damage that will be done is not yet known.
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