On January 28th 2013, the UK government unveiled plans for a High Speed railway connecting London with Birmingham and onwards to Manchester and Leeds. Dubbed HS2, this controversial scheme has developed a heated and polemic response; balancing a need to improve infrastructure and address Britain’s “ North South Divide” with the destruction of large tracts of English countryside and expenditure of 48 billion pounds of tax-payer’s money. Shallow media coverage inspired a personal photographic project to address my own questions, concerns and curiosity. Using OS Maps to follow the exact route, I have now covered every mile from London to Birmingham.
