Residents claim high-speed rail company has not taken West Yorkshire area’s coal mining legacy into accountResidents in West Yorkshire have raised concerns about plans to build the HS2 rail line through a former mining area, after an eight-metre-long crack opened up in the ground along the proposed route. Plans for the Yorkshire section of the high-speed train line were changed earlier this year, taking it to the east of Sheffield instead of through the Meadowhall shopping centre, on the city’s border with Rotherham. Continue reading…
Via: New HS2 fears as large crack opens up on land where train line will run
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