As well as HS2, also under construction and close to HS2 is the East West Rail (EWR) link project to connect Oxford with Cambridge. This, too, is a scheme with controversial elements over choice of route. In this view, the first rails on the EWR are being laid east of Bicester on April 12 this year.
ALL PICTURES: PHIL MARSH
IT was a brief encounter near the former GCR Calvert station between the author and an anti-HS2 protester that resulted in the unlikely invitation to visit to the nearby Poors Piece camp. Making the offer was a very articulate 21-year-old who gave his name as Goldi, and who had been living there since February.