Under these proposals, called the Thames Hub, new high-speed rail lines would be built connecting Kent and Europe with North London, and the North East and North West of England.
Thames Hub (UK; concept 2011) - Halcrow is providing technical advice to architects Foster + Partners for its Thames Hub proposal for integrated infrastructure development in the Thames Estuary in the UK.
Thames Hub integrated infrastructure vision, a proposal for infrastructure development in the Thames Estuary in the United Kingdom
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Thames Hub Airport, a proposal for a new platform-based hub airport on the Isle of Grain
In November 2011 Lord Foster launched the concept of the Thames Hub - an integrated infrastructure development in the Thames Estuary which included a high-speed rail line, a combined Thames road and rail crossing and a flood protection barrier incorporating Renewable energy generation#Hydropower renewable energy generation, and a new 150 million passenger hub airport.
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The Thames Hub combines rail, freight logistics, aviation, renewable energy and its transmission, flood protection and regional development in the Thames Estuary and connects this infrastructure to a trade and utilities spine that runs the length of the UK.