High Speed 2

High Speed 2 is a high-speed railway which has been under construction in England since 2020. The planned route runs between Handsacre in southern and London, with a branch to .
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  • Email: hs2enquiries@hs2.org.uk
  • Type: Quango
  • Description: high-speed railway under construction, between London and Birmingham, England
  • Also known as: “High Speed 2 (HS2) Limited”, “High Speed Two”, “HS2”, and “HS2 Ltd.”
  • Address: 2 Snow Hill Queensway
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Birmingham Snow Hill railway station and St Chad’s Cathedral.

Railway station
Photo: Randwick, Public domain.
Birmingham Snow Hill, also known as Snow Hill station, is a railway station in Birmingham City Centre. It is one of the three main city-centre stations in Birmingham, along with and .

Church
Photo: G-Man, Public domain.
The Metropolitan Cathedral Church and Basilica of Saint Chad is a Catholic cathedral in . It is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Birmingham and is dedicated to Saint Chad of Mercia. is situated 540 feet north of High Speed 2.

Church
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cathedral Church of Saint Philip, also called the Birmingham Cathedral, is a Church of England cathedral and the seat of the Bishop of Birmingham. Built as a parish church in the Baroque style by Thomas Archer, it was consecrated in 1715. is situated 1,100 feet south of High Speed 2.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gun Quarter and Jewellery Quarter.

Locality
The is a district of the city of , England, which was for many years a centre of the world's gun-manufacturing industry, specialising in the production of military firearms and sporting guns.

Suburb
Photo: Brian Clift, CC BY 2.0.
The is an area of central , , in the north-western area of Birmingham City Centre, with a population of 19,000 in a 1.07-square-kilometre area.

Neighborhood
in , England is located in the city centre's Southside. It is an area with a predominantly influence as a result of a concentration of Chinese owned businesses, organisations and social clubs.

High Speed 2

Latitude
52.48412° or 52° 29′ 3″ north
Longitude
-1.89888° or 1° 53′ 56″ west
Operator
Department for Transport
Open location code
9C4WF4M2+JC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4711767170
Open­Street­Map feature
office=­quango
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q798868
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“High Speed 2” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هاي سبيد 2”
  • Bengali: “হাই স্পিড ২”
  • Chinese: “2号高速铁路”
  • Chinese: “2號高速鐵路”
  • Czech: “High Speed 2”
  • Dutch: “High Speed 2”
  • Dutch: “HS2”
  • Finnish: “High Speed 2”
  • French: “High Speed 2”
  • French: “HS2”
  • German: “High Speed 2”
  • German: “HS2”
  • Hungarian: “High Speed 2”
  • Indonesian: “High Speed 2”
  • Italian: “High Speed 2”
  • Japanese: “HS2”
  • Korean: “하이 스피드 2”
  • Lithuanian: “High Speed 2”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “High Speed 2”
  • Norwegian: “High Speed 2”
  • Turkish: “High Speed 2”
  • Ukrainian: “High Speed 2”
  • Welsh: “HS2”
  • “High Speed 2”

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