With news HS2 will not be coming to Manchester, we look back before some of our most recognisable buildings and infrastructure were built
There has been a lot of disappointment and anger in the city following news the Government is scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester HS2 leg after weeks of speculation.
So while the details of these plans are yet to be announced, we take a look back major construction projects in-and-around Scroll through our gallery of 26 archive images below and see if you remember some of these landmarks either being built or redeveloped in a way that we now recognise them today.Piccadilly Station was rebuilt in the late 1950s before it was reopened and renamed Piccadilly Station in 1960. Here ballast wagons line the tracks as construction work takes place in 1959Building the Mancunian Way, 1966. The elevated section of the Mancunian Way under construction in 1966.
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