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Midlands Rail Hub

Heartland

Heartland

master brummie

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The Midlands Rail Hub promises new railway links in Birmingham and elsewhere​


Their plans for a modern rail network for the Midlands​

The Midlands Rail Hub proposes building two ‘chords’ as well as 11 further engineering interventions throughout the region to deliver a massive step change in rail transport in the Midlands.

The West Chord: consists of improvements between Bordesley and Moor Street, allowing access to Birmingham Moor Street from South-West and Wales, and making sure services are improved on the Hereford and Worcester corridors.

The East Chord: creates an access to Birmingham Moor Street from the East Midlands.

Other plans for engineering upgrades include:

  • Snow Hill platform 4
  • Moor Street platform 5
  • Improvements around Kings Norton-Barnt Green
  • Stoke Works junction
  • A Malvern Wells turnback facility
  • Ledbury – Shelwick partial double-tracking
  • Moor Street platforms A & B (east side)
  • Bordesley viaduct widening
  • Water Orton remodelling
  • Nuneaton to Wigston signalling headways
  • Freight loops between Nuneaton and Leicester.

Aerial-view-of-Moor-street.jpg


Moor Street is key to this scheme proposals
 
But weren't these plans from before they scrapped most of HS2 and aimed at giving better connections to it?
 
(Sorry, Off topic I know) - I see they've wallpapered over the building that used to be covered in saucepan lids.
 
The Hub still seems to be going ahead as per recent posts, it will be of interest to see what is chosen for development
 
As they are trying too cut costs (though not salaries and profits), I fear for the real Curzon st station building which was supposed to be included and suddenly found "problems".
 
mikejee said:
As they are trying too cut costs (though not salaries and profits), I fear for the real Curzon st station building which was supposed to be included and suddenly found "problems".
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so do i mike..also crossed my mind because as a lot of us know the promise of retaining old buildings does not always happen

lyn
 
When Moor Street Station was improved the adjacent goods sheds were removed. With the Hub, there is the proposal to link the Camp Hill line with Moor Street what will be lost when, or if that was done?

When they built Millennium Point they removed a heritage railway stable block

It would seem that heritage value has little meaning these days!
 
Heartland said:
When Moor Street Station was improved the adjacent goods sheds were removed. With the Hub, there is the proposal to link the Camp Hill line with Moor Street what will be lost when, or if that was done?

When they built Millennium Point they removed a heritage railway stable block

It would seem that heritage value has little meaning these days!
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been saying that for years heartland

lyn
 
Heartland said:
When Moor Street Station was improved the adjacent goods sheds were removed. With the Hub, there is the proposal to link the Camp Hill line with Moor Street what will be lost when, or if that was done?

When they built Millennium Point they removed a heritage railway stable block

It would seem that heritage value has little meaning these days!
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'Listing' (particularly to grade 2) or classing buildings as 'heritage' means nothing to Birmingham City Council. Nothing will stand in the way of so-called "progress" to get some councillor's (or his company's) pet project going. We've seen it so many times before, with pockets being lined from not only the new building going on, but also in the demolition of what previously occupied the site. Historic buildings no longer practical or paying their way mysteriously burn to the ground (q.v. the Crooked House, and watch for the 'Lad in the Lane' AKA 'The Green Man' being next) leaving the way open for redevelopment.
 
Lloyd said:
'Listing' (particularly to grade 2) or classing buildings as 'heritage' means nothing to Birmingham City Council. Nothing will stand in the way of so-called "progress" to get some councillor's (or his company's) pet project going. We've seen it so many times before, with pockets being lined from not only the new building going on, but also in the demolition of what previously occupied the site. Historic buildings no longer practical or paying their way mysteriously burn to the ground (q.v. the Crooked House, and watch for the 'Lad in the Lane' AKA 'The Green Man' being next) leaving the way open for redevelopment.
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The bankruptcy of Birmingham Council, and 1 in 10 other Councils, will make the situation for listed buildings even worse...And give an opportunity for some to trouser large profits.
 
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