‘The design team has gone from 500 to six.’ What HS2 Euston is doing now

By Dave Rogers2023-06-14T06:00:00

What happens when you are told that the job you have been working on is put on hold? Dave Rogers went to find out

“It was pretty sombre.” Andy Swift, the man in charge of building the planned HS2 station at Euston, is recalling the mood when the team was told three months ago that the project was being mothballed for two years.

Transport secretary Mark Harper made the announcement, via a written statement, one afternoon in early March. “We didn’t think it was going to happen,” Swift adds.

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