Topic: Buckinghamshire

HS2 quantity at Quainton: 646 freight trains move a million tonnes

HS2, Britain’s high-speed rail project, is buried in statistics. However, there is one statistic that burrows its way out from all the others. 646 freight trains have delivered one million tonnes of construction materials to...Read more

07-03-2024|Comment|author: Simon Walton

UK’s high-speed railway says truck off, Bucks!

Britain’s high-speed railway project has engaged with rail freight to move 300,000 truck journeys off the rural roads of Buckinghamshire roads. The first of approximately 1,800 freight trains has been received at the new HS2...Read more

18-11-2022|2 comments|author: Simon Walton

HS2 project reaches a megaton milestone

HS2, the UK’s high-speed rail project, is celebrating a rail freight milestone. The company formed to build the railway says it has delivered a million tonnes of materials by rail. That, says HS2 Limited, has...Read more

13-07-2022|Comment|author: Simon Walton

More rail freight operations for HS2 construction

Britain’s high-speed rail project HS2 claims it will take an extra 24,000 heavy goods vehicles off the UK roads. The project builders have opened a new aggregates terminal in rural Buckinghamshire, north of London. The...Read more

11-08-2021|Comment|author: Simon Walton