All stations to regeneration? Work on HS2 begins in earnest
(The Guardian Business News)

At Euston, the controversial rail route´s southern terminus, the diggers are at work. Can the project deliver what it promises?The wealthy inhabitants of 18th-century Piccadilly dug deep when choosing a resting place in the new, overflow St James burial ground in Camden: the less likely to be disturbed by later arrivals to London´s packed cemeteries. But even a stone casket eight metres down only buys you so much peace when a £56bn train line comes knocking.The first big dig on HS2´s route out of Euston is bringing up the bones of some 40,000 people, and these are the lucky ones. Records suggest 61,000 bodies were interred, but about a third were removed to expand the rail terminus in the 19th century - and without, current archaeologists maintain, the care they are now taking to keep each skeleton apart. Continue reading...