Weston Williamson unveils plan to ‘save Manchester’ by burying HS2 station

2022-01-25T09:36:00

Architect backs mayor’s call to reconsider underground station or risk ’destroying much of the city’

Weston Williamson & Partners has drawn up a scheme showing how calls by Manchester’s leaders for an underground HS2 station could be implemented.

The infrastructure specialist, which has recently completed two stations for Crossrail in London and oversaw the redevelopment of the capital’s Waterloo station, said the new station should be a through station rather than the proposed terminus.

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