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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: Episode Four, How to build a Railway: Creating the Green Corridor
Description: How to Build a Railway is a twelve-part podcast series exploring the story behind the construction of the UK’s new high speed rail line.
As the largest single environmental project in the UK, protecting and enhancing the environment has always been an integral part of the HS2 programme. Since 2009, every metre of the design has been carefully considered in navigating sites of natural significance.
Episode four, ‘Creating the Green Corridor’, explores our endeavours to protect, replace and improve the green spaces that will run alongside the railway – creating the equivalent of 23 new Hyde Parks lining the spine of the country.
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