Phase 2a Route Overview for House of Commons Select CommitteeProfessor Andrew McNaughton

19 March 2018

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High Speed Rail Network

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High Speed Rail is 53 Years Old

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International Technical Standards

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IndicativeRail Corridor

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HS1 Two Track Railway

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200m long trains which can be coupled to run in pairs 400m long

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HS2 Design Principles

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1. Integrated noise protection and visual screening2. Further screen planting to supplement earthworks and fit with local landscape3. An earthworks solution removes the need for a fence type noise barrier (cutting costs + maintenance burden)4. Land returned to agriculture up to the railway (opportunity to improve agricultural land)5. This earthworks solution minimises the width of the rail corridor6. Protection of environmental features (e.g. ecology, heritage, landscape)7. Boundary fence visually concealed behind the earthworks8. The majority of the original land take is handed back for productive use

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Phase 2a Route Overview

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1. Fradley to Kings Bromley

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2. Kings Bromley to Blithbury

Newlands Lane Auto Transformer Feeder Station

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Newlands Lane Auto Transformer Feeder Station

View from North looking South

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3. Colton to Colwich

Newlands Lane Auto Transformer Feeder Station

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4. Moreton to Ingestre

Great Haywood viaduct

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5. Staffordshire Show Ground to Marston

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6. Marston to Stone

Stone Infrastructure Maintenance Base - Rail

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7. Stone Infrastructure Maintenance Base to Swynnerton

Stone Infrastructure Maintenance Base - Rail

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Stone Infrastructure Maintenance Base - Rail

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8. Swynnertonto Stableford

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9. Whitmore Heath Tunnel to MadeleyTunnel

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High Speed Porous Tunnel Portal

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9. Whitmore Heath Tunnel to MadeleyTunnel

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10. MadeleyTunnel to Blakenhall

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11. Crewe Approaches

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Crewe Existing Layout

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Crewe Proposed Layout HS2 Trains Passing Crewe Highlighted

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Crewe Proposed Layout HS2 to WCML Highlighted

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High Speed Rail Network

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