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Waste Lane, COVENTRY, CV7 7GH

In order to accommodate HS2 construction work the Kenilworth Greenway has been temporarily diverted following a new route across fields. Here, it winds its way around houses on Waste Lane and has, for a very short distance, an asphalt surface.

And no expense has been spared by HS2, the cause of the diversion. A Toucan crossing, gates, even a mounting block for horse and pony riders. It is a refreshing change to see pedestrians and cyclists (and equestrians) treated so generously, but it is not hard to see why the high speed railway has gone vastly over budget if this largesse has been repeated all the way from Birmingham to London. There is a similar crossing at Burton Green which is temporary, as the completed work there is to include a tunnel under the road for the Greenway. The 87 bus from Coventry to Solihull is approaching from the left.

Carrying Waste Lane over the trackbed of the Kenilworth Junction to Berkswell line. This line provided a useful bypass for the congested junction in Coventry and various plans have come and gone over the years for its re-instatement.

A new gate and fence have been provided giving access to the path from the temporary Kenilworth Greenway. Even so, the course of the path is only faintly discernible across the field.

Construction of the High Speed 2 (HS2) line is taking place, at this point using the alignment of the old Berkswell Loop railway.

Waste Lane crosses the disused Kenilworth Junction to Berkswell railway, which was built in the 1880s by the LNWR, and then removed by the end of the 1960s.

An OS cutmark on the parapet wall of the bridge over the disused railway, which was originally levelled in 1966, at 129.924m above Ordnance Datum Newlyn.

On this stretch the High Speed 2 railway (HS2) will follow the alignment of the Berkswell loop line closed in 1969. This is the view from Waste Lane bridge towards Burton Green.