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He was advised to run the line inland because the difficulties of building so close to the sea were considerable. Brunel not only pooh-poohed such timidity; he planned an entirely new concept, a train propelled by atmospheric pressure with vacuums created by steam engines along the track.</p> <p>It worked, though not for long, and Brunel was forced to revert to traditional locomotion. But his was the quintessential can-do spirit of the 19th century engineer-cum-adventurer. When GWR’s directors balked at the speed with which he was pressing ahead with the 110-mile route from Bristol to London, he told them “Why not extend it to New York?” This was something he then achieved by linking it up with the Great Western steamship at Bristol.</p> <p>The Act of Parliament permitting construction of the GWR was passed in September 1835; by 1841 the line to Bristol was completed. It is extraordinary to think that virtually the country’s entire rail network was laid down in the ensuing half century. The Channel Tunnel link, or HS1, which opened in 2007, was the first new railway in England for more than 100 years; HS2 will be the second. After all the shenanigans of the past 10 years since the project was first announced, Boris Johnson gave the final go-ahead yesterday to sighs of relief from supporters and cacophony of outrage from critics.</p> <p>The PM’s announcement was delivered in the Commons with a brio that confounded the litany of gloom that always seems to accompany any major new scheme in this country. Why is it so difficult to get anything done anymore? Objections to HS2 include the impact on woodland; if that had been a consideration in the 19th century, we would still be travelling by coach-and-four and moving goods by canal.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="htmlEmbed section"><div class="html-embed component "> <div class="component-content"> <aside id="fd3b3e50-16ea-410f-ae25-9f1eaf71ba3b" data-data-uri="https://particle-api.eip.telegraph.co.uk/particles/fd3b3e50-16ea-410f-ae25-9f1eaf71ba3b" data-html-uri="https://cf-particle-html.eip.telegraph.co.uk/fd3b3e50-16ea-410f-ae25-9f1eaf71ba3b.html" class="tmg-particle breakout-box" data-reg-required="false" data-reg-redirect="" data-sub-required="false" data-sub-redirect="" data-widget-type="breakout-box" data-widget-title="Selected UK infrastructure projects comparison" data-widget-size="responsive" data-widget-static="false" data-expandable="true" data-embeddable="true"><a title="Selected UK infrastructure projects comparison" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200212084959/https://cf-particle-html.eip.telegraph.co.uk/fd3b3e50-16ea-410f-ae25-9f1eaf71ba3b.html">Selected UK infrastructure projects comparison</a></aside><script src="https://web.archive.org/web/20200212084959js_/https://cf.eip.telegraph.co.uk/particle-embed/js/particle.js" defer></script> </div> </div> </div> <div class="articleBodyText section"> <div class="article-body-text component "> <div class="component-content"> <p><span class="m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged">B</span>ut, say detractors, we can’t compare today with Victorian times because the population was far smaller then and planning laws rudimentary. People didn’t really mind. But in truth, the arrival of the steam train was greeted with horror as the railways snaked their way across pristine meadows and tunnels were blasted out of the hillsides. The speed of construction left contemporaries bewildered; nothing quite like it had been seen before and the literature of mid-Victorian Britain reflected popular concerns.</p> <p>In<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200212084959/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10699221/George-Eliot-What-did-she-ever-do-for-us.html"> Eliot’s Middlemarch</a>, set around 1831, alarmed locals fret that the railway will tear apart the economic and social structure of daily life. Dickens in Dombey and Son likens the railway’s impact in north London to an earthquake. Nor is it just the railways. Canals, forts, roads, mines, New Towns, docks, mobile phone masts, electricity pylons, wind turbines – all have in their way desecrated the countryside and all have been opposed at some point or other. To mitigate its environmental impact, much of the HS2 route will be in tunnels and cuttings which partly accounts for its stupendous cost. Indeed, many of the objections are not to the concept but to the estimated £100 billion price tag.</p> <p>It is a mystery how infrastructure projects in Britain are so extortionately expensive. HS2 started off at £32.7 billion, which seemed steep enough. High-speed lines have been built in France, Japan and Spain at a tenth of the projected cost of HS2. Even allowing for greater population density in the UK (though Japan is pretty crowded, too) that is an inexplicable difference.</p> <p>Heathrow’s third runway, should it ever go ahead (and this is one <em>grand projet</em> that Mr Johnson is not so keen on), is estimated to cost around £19 billion. Even the car park will swallow £800 million. The Dutch built a fifth runway at Schipol Airport for £300 million. Two Royal Navy aircraft carriers have cost more than £6 billion before they are even equipped with fighters. We need more nuclear power if we are going to run the entire national car fleet on electricity yet we agonise over building new stations. The Hinkley Point C reactor will cost almost £20 billion to construct but the National Audit Office estimates the ongoing public subsidy at £60 billion.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="videoPlayer section"> <div class="video-player-youtube"> <div class="video-player-youtube__source" id="video-C1puOSrTnSw"></div> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> tmg.pubsub.subscribe({ topic : 'tmg.ads.page.ready', func : function(){ function getRelatedVideos(ids) { return ids.split(","); }; var disableRelatedVideos = ('' === 'true'); var relatedVideos = getRelatedVideos(''); var relatedPlaylist = ''; // relatedVideos take priority over playlists if( relatedVideos.indexOf("") === -1 && !disableRelatedVideos ) { relatedPlaylist = ''; } var youtube_kvp = window.parent.tmgAdsBuildAd("vid","","","").customvarstr; return new YT.Player('video-C1puOSrTnSw', { videoId: 'C1puOSrTnSw', playerVars: { modestbranding: '1', list: relatedPlaylist }, embedConfig: { "adsConfig": { "adTagParameters": { "iu": tmgAds.dfp.adunit, "cust_params": youtube_kvp }, "nonPersonalizedAd": false }, "disableRelatedVideos": disableRelatedVideos, "relatedVideos": relatedVideos }, events: { "onReady": onYouTubeReady, "onStateChange": onPlayerStateChange, "onError": onYouTubePlayerError } }); }, runIfAlreadyPublished: true }); function onYouTubeReady(event) { tmg.pubsub.publish({ topic: 'tmg.youtube.ready' }); //push to _cbv (chartbeat video) window._cbv.push(event.target); }; function onYouTubePlayerError(event) { console.log("youtube error: " + event.data); }; </script> </div> <div class="articleBodyText section"> <div class="article-body-text component "> <div class="component-content"> <p><span class="m_first-letter m_first-letter--flagged">W</span>hether or not you think one or all of these projects is needed, the fact remains that infrastructure costs far more here than almost anywhere else in the world. Why? Among the explanations are historic under-investment; new schemes cost more; a shortage of engineers pushes up prices; land is more expensive than in other countries; planning laws are more onerous; compensation arrangements are more generous; and procurement and contract management are woefully poor. Even so, the costs still seem out of proportion.</p> <p>But when it comes to infrastructure, we need to look not a few decades hence but 100 years or more ahead. Cost-benefit analysis of major schemes invariably underplays the long-term impact on the overall economy, whether through job creation or house building. 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Thursday September 06 The Walney Extension in the Irish Sea off the coast of Cumbria, the world's largest working offshore wind farm which has opened on Wednesday. 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