Hs2 Curzon Street massive developments underway

HS2 has announced the start of a major refurbishment project to restore the Grade 1 listed Old Curzon Street Station in Birmingham, one of the world’s oldest surviving pieces of monumental railway architecture.

Over the next twelve months, a team of local experts will carry out intricate restoration work on the iconic building, which was designed by the notable architect Philip Hardwick and opened in 1838 as the Birmingham terminus for the London and Birmingham Railway Co. (L&BR) line that connected to Euston Station in London.

The project will be undertaken by national contractors KN Circet transport and Infrastructure division, a multinational company with offices in Solihull, who are working for HS2’s enabling works contractor LMJV (Laing O’Rourke and J. Murphy & Sons).

The Grade I listed building has been integrated into HS2’s plans for the new Curzon Street Station, which provide an enhanced setting to reflect the history of the old station as well as the Grade II listed Woodman pub. The public space surrounding the station will feature the historic track alignments of the former goods yard that used to lie to its east, and the gardens and new eastern concourse façade have also been designed to complement the architecture of the building.

[krayzkatman]

Oh what a tangled web we weave! If you were designing the railways around the city center from scratch you surely wouldn't do it like that. Is that Moor St in the shot and where the lines into New St pass beneath between 1:00 and 1:30? It looks like there might have been platforms once that those steps led down to. It also illustrates how close all these stations will be once Curzon St is completed.

[mrglide]

So is this in essence a reboot of the restoration that began over two years ago, but stalled due to funding issues, as the structural work was far more involved than the original budget realised?

[njp]

Why are us northerners paying for a project that isn't even going to go to the north