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HS2 works unearth Stevenson designed turntable

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Edders23

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Don't think we have a section for railway Archaeology so lets try here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-51820160

HS2 work has unearthed an old Robert Stephenson-designed railway turntable in Birmingham.

Excavations at the former Curzon Street station, which is set to be a new station for HS2, exposed the structure thought to date from 1837.

Archaeologists are now working to expose remains of the former Grand Junction Railway terminus.

The discovery was described as "extraordinary" by an HS2 spokesman.

The remains show evidence of the base of the central turntable, the exterior wall and the inspection pits that surrounded it.

The original Curzon Street station building, known as the L&BR terminus, officially opened in 1838 and is grade I-listed.

The original railway linking London with Birmingham saw journey times from the capital taking almost five hours.

rest is blurb about the new station
 
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