Freight train delivery to Calvert HS2 site

HS2 celebrates 100 Buckinghamshire trains

Freight train delivery to Calvert site3 (HS2) HS2 Limited media centre

The high-speed rail project, HS2, has celebrated bringing in the one-hundredth train to its Buckinghamshire contraction site in the south east of England. The company says the milestone operations has already taken the equivalent of 7,500 heavy goods vehicles off Britain’s roads. They say that using rail has eliminated over 24,000 tonnes of carbon emissions. The company further claims that the massive civil engraving project is directly helping the British economy and the UK rail freight sector bounce back from the impact of COVID-19.

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Author: Simon Walton

Simon Walton is RailFreight's UK correspondent.

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