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As I stated it was a big article in paper. Design work on Euston station has been "stopped" because HS2 " simply couldn't get the costs and benefits of the scheme to balance in an affordable way". Also goes on - some of the issues : building over railway tracks is very expensive/ HS2 could return to a plan....keeping most of the station and erecting an extension alongside it for high speed trains, described by critics as a 'lean to'/ HS2 have underestimated the value of the land round here ( Euston). They need to do a big investment to replace the housing they would have to knock down. About 1,500 houses would be affected. St James garden will be destroyed and graves there will have to be dug up. Twenty thousand square metres of open land will be lost. Restaurants, pubs, shops and other businesses will be demolished with about 3,000 jobs at risk. Article goes on to say whatever happens the halting of the process is expected to add at least a year to the construction, making the original timetable impossible.
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