The northern legs of the HS2 rail link have been scrapped – but building work across a huge swathe of southern England and the Midlands has been going on for more than three years.
Drills are churning under the landscape between London and Birmingham around the clock, and there are 350 active construction sites along the 140 mile (225km) route, but no trains are expected to run on it until at least 2029.
So how much of HS2 – which remains one of the most expensive rail projects in the world – has already been built?
Eleven tunnels, a viaduct that will be the UK’s longest railway bridge and four new stations have all been planned – with the track itself being laid later.
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