TonyK
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« Reply #945 on: April 17, 2020, 17:38:00 » |
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The importance of HS2▸ to Birmingham, or at least its City Council, is clear. The council planning is to meet next week in response to the final go-ahead to consider / rubber stamp the proposals for the 7-platform HS2 station at Curzon Street. There is a video showing what it look a bit like in this Birmingham Mail report as well as a bit more detail. |
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« Reply #946 on: April 17, 2020, 17:42:32 » |
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Purists be forewarned, the Birmingham Mail article refers to it as a train station.
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TonyK
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« Reply #947 on: April 17, 2020, 17:46:48 » |
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Purists be forewarned, the Birmingham Mail article refers to it as a train station.
Thankfully, planning officer Nicholas Jackson knows his stuff, and says: The elegant and (deceptively) simple form of the main station building clearly reads as a railway station and harks back to traditional station architecture, delivering this in a confident and contemporary way Looking more closely at the HS▸ interactive map than I have before, I notice that it joins the WCML▸ in two places, enabling through trains to Glasgow, and joins the ECML▸ for Edinburgh. I haven't found plans for services yet. |
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« Reply #948 on: April 26, 2020, 08:46:41 » |
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Matt in today's Telegraph  |
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« Reply #949 on: April 26, 2020, 12:57:15 » |
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Purists be forewarned, the Birmingham Mail article refers to it as a train station.
Thankfully, planning officer Nicholas Jackson knows his stuff, and says: The elegant and (deceptively) simple form of the main station building clearly reads as a railway station and harks back to traditional station architecture, delivering this in a confident and contemporary way [...] Phew: so we will all know where to go if we want to catch a railway. Presumably we will still go to the train station when we want to catch a train though? |
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Things take longer to happen than you think they will, and then they happen faster than you thought they could.
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« Reply #950 on: May 15, 2020, 13:50:08 » |
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Interesting proposal to name the TBMs (Tunnel Boring Machines) to be utilised on the project: https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2020/05/15/hs2-opens-public-vote-to-name-two-giant-tbms/Vote for your favourite name
Earlier this year, our contractor Align (a joint venture of Bouygues Travaux Publics, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick) engaged with local schools in Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Hillingdon and asked students to put forward names of women who have made their mark on history through their achievements. Tradition dictates that in order to keep the tunnellers safe underground, tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are given a female name before they are launched. The women below were shortlisted and we now want you to vote for your favourite name for our machines.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Florence Nightingale
Marie Curie You can vote here: https://www.hs2.org.uk/tbmvoting/ |
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« Reply #951 on: May 15, 2020, 14:08:44 » |
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Interesting proposal to name the TBMs (Tunnel Boring Machines) to be utilised on the project: https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2020/05/15/hs2-opens-public-vote-to-name-two-giant-tbms/Vote for your favourite name
Earlier this year, our contractor Align (a joint venture of Bouygues Travaux Publics, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick) engaged with local schools in Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Hillingdon and asked students to put forward names of women who have made their mark on history through their achievements. Tradition dictates that in order to keep the tunnellers safe underground, tunnel boring machines (TBMs) are given a female name before they are launched. The women below were shortlisted and we now want you to vote for your favourite name for our machines.
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Florence Nightingale
Marie Curie You can vote here: https://www.hs2.org.uk/tbmvoting/Too late to suggest Chris(tine) Packham then?  Paul |
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« Reply #953 on: May 17, 2020, 09:22:13 » |
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Leaders of the HS2▸ rail project have been "blindsided by contact with reality" - a fitting epitaph for this colossal money pit. |
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« Reply #954 on: May 17, 2020, 09:59:30 » |
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I must admit, I’d never heard of Cecilia.
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To view my GWML▸ Electrification cab video 'before and after' video comparison, as well as other videos of the new layout at Reading and 'before and after' comparisons of the Cotswold Line Redoubling scheme, see: http://www.dailymotion.com/user/IndustryInsider/ |
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« Reply #955 on: May 17, 2020, 10:20:47 » |
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I must admit, I’d never heard of Cecilia.
I suspect few had to be fair......not the sort of name one forgets once heard though!!! |
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« Reply #956 on: May 17, 2020, 12:21:30 » |
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I must admit, I’d never heard of Cecilia.
Wasn't it a song by Simon & Garfunkel  |
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« Reply #957 on: May 17, 2020, 12:30:09 » |
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Roman goddess of music (hence the song, I presume).
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TonyK
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« Reply #959 on: May 18, 2020, 17:18:49 » |
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I must admit, I’d never heard of Cecilia.
Me neither, but respect to the lady. I wondered why the company would want to name a TBM after one of a shortlist containing an astronomer, a nurse, and a physicist. Probably because they were all pioneers in their fields? I must admit, I’d never heard of Cecilia.
Wasn't it a song by Simon & Garfunkel Indeed so, about a lady of little patience in the boudoir. I'm glad I have an en suite. No point in taking chances. |
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