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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Simon Calder

Nightmare before Christmas: HS2 to disrupt rail travel on 24 December

GWR

HS2, the high-speed rail project that the government has largely scrapped, will cause serious disruption for rail passengers hoping to travel between London, South Wales and the West of England over Christmas – and intermittently for the next five years.

Work on the new HS2 station at Old Oak Common in west London will close the Great Western main line from 24 to 27 December.

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