Jurassic tracks and <scp>HS2</scp> : a twenty‐first century journey

The biggest UK railway construction site since the nineteenth century has exposed a near‐complete time slice through the entire Jurassic succession of central England. This is yielding a wealth of stratigraphical, palaeobiological and palaeoenvironmental data that is otherwise generally poorly exposed at the present day. Construction of the HS2 (High Speed 2) railway scheme is generating important exposures of these strata, affording significant geological recording, research and educational opportunities.