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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-45795254 .

Images nicked from the document that Cursor St. architect's (WSP) have just released this week. Note: This is not a concept, but is the basis of the actual design being drawn up for the station. https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/commonplace-cloudfront/resources/projects/hs2inbirmingham/70037817_HS2_Curzon+Street_A5+Brochure_V1-compressed.pdf . .

Sorry folks, but this seems like a lot of pointless bickering. HS2 is being built. Phase one will not be having any additional stations. Preliminary work has already commenced at various points all along the proposed route. There are work sites and compounds being established at various locations, nature reserves and wildlife refuges being created, utility services surveyed and preparations being made for their relocation, buildings being demolished etc, etc. It could still be cancelled, with a few £billion already spent or committed written off in the process, but the first elements of the major construction work are due to commence in the not too distant future, which would then make cancellation of the project even more unlikely. .

You might need to go back and edit a few of your posts Phil. Wilmslow is in Cheshire and is due to be served by a HS2 station.......at Manchester Airport.

On the topic of the Euston carriage sheds, Urban explorer site "28 Days Later", has some photos of the abandoned building, taken some 3 years ago....... https://www.28dayslater.co.uk/threads/euston-downside-depot-july-2015.98804/ .

There's a good reason why they've used a small form factor socket in this model. The lack of available space. Otherwise Bachmann would have fitted an 8 or 21 pin connector. The solution is quite simple. Buy an appropriate Next18 decoder. .

Work begins to exhume ‘18,000 dead bodies, buried 20 deep’ for HS2 https://metro.co.uk/2018/09/13/work-begins-to-exhume-18000-dead-bodies-buried-20-deep-for-hs2-7940768/ ....

Birmingham Curzon St. site clearance and preparatory work underway.

The former National Temperance Hospital building is being demolished to make way for a HS2 works compound. hospital.jpg .

The derelict former carriage shed at Euston has been demolished and cleared to make way for the HS2 tunnel portal works. 3127874_carriagesheddemoexternaloriginalcondition.jpg 3127868_carriagesheddemointernaloriginalcondition3to2.jpg 3127870_carriagesheddemocranewideangle.jpg 3127869_carriagesheddemocranecloseup.jpg 3127875_carriagesheddemolitionworkcomplete.jpg .

At first glance I thought that read ... 3,500 locos !!!! Crikey! I've some catching up to do. That's a fair few decoders too. Then I realised you actually (or is it probably) meant ... 35x locos (00 gauge).

YouTube transport Vlogger, Geoff Marshall talks to Gareth Edwards (a.k.a. John Bull) of London Reconnections, about the delay to the opening of Crossrail/Elizabeth Line and other related issues. A bit of banter and messing about at the start, but it gets going after 2min 40secs in. There's some interesting information in there. Warning, it's 27mins long.

Ford Transit PHEV https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/ford/transit-custom/104654/ford-transit-custom-phev-debuts-at-iaa-commercial-vehicle-show-pictures VW e-Crafter all electric EV https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/volkswagen/crafter/104464/volkswagen-e-crafter-review Nissan e-NV200 https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/nissan/e-nv200/van

That vehicle segment is seeing a number of new EV vans being introduced. It is seen as a growth area, but high initial costs, due to R&D and the rapid developments in the technology, have held the commercial vehicle sector back until now. As with passenger cars, I'm fairly convinced that landscape will look much different in three or four years time. .

12 electric Audi models by 2025. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/audi-e-tron-one-twelve-electric-audis-launch-2025 .

Hydrogen Fuel Cell. .

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South coast based YouTube VLOG'er Petrol Ped has just driven the new Jaguar I-Pace. Petrol Ped specialises in reviewing performance cars and expensive supercars. A real petrol head. Do watch this review (available in full screen HD on YouTube).

Kia Niro EV. With a claimed 300 + mile range. https://www.autoexpress.co.uk/kia/niro/99815/301-mile-range-confirmed-for-kia-e-niro-ev-due-next-year

As part of its “Electric for All” campaign, the Volkswagen brand aims to sell 150,000 electric cars including 100,000 ID models made in Germany by 2020. 10 million vehicles will be produced in the first product life cycle “creating massive economies of scale". Volkswagen aims to sell one million EVs by 2025. By 2021 the plan is to be producing 1,500 ID family vehicles per day, the equivalent of almost 550,000 a year. By the end of 2022, four of the group’s brands will be ramping up to 27 different models. As a reminder. We are only a few months away from 2019. .

VW Group member SEAT are planning their first 2 EV models by 2020. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/seat-launch-two-electric-models-2020

Meanwhile, PSA Group have announced that they are aiming to sell 10 million plug-in hybrid and pure EV cars by 2025 (just over 6 years time). PSA Group brands = Peugeot, Citroen, DS, Opel, Vauxhall. https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/psa-group-ready-massive-ev-expansion-across-its-brands ..