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More of your thoughts and views on HS2 – Britain’s most controversial rail project

I AM certainly no ‘railway expert’ – as highlighted in last month’s Train of Thought, which concerns the issue of HS2 – but the former GCR route through the Chilterns as far as Rugby ought not to be dismissed lightly.

Portions of the route have certainly been built upon but, as the photo on p6 shows (the destruction of the Ibis Hotel at Euston), demolition is going to be a feature

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