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Podcast: Engineering Matters
Episode: Episode Three, How to build a Railway: Preparing the ground
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.
Over 250 miles of new high speed railway is planned, with trains capable of speeds up to 225mph (360km/h), and linking the biggest cities in Scotland with Manchester, Birmingham and London.
This episode of How to build a railway, ‘Preparing the ground’, takes a look at the early construction works that needed to be done on HS2, before building the stations, bridges, tunnels and track that will form the operational railwa...