HS2 Bridge Construction at Banbury Lane, Lower Thorpe Mandeville

This location is one of the most serious sites of landscape wrecking on the route. Sad to see the buildings of Lower Thorpe gone, the obliteration of a watercourse in the direction of Greatworth, the large hill still untouched towards Culworth, which will be an extremely deep cutting. The circular area looks to be slap bang on the centre line; and as it is a low point, in claggy soil, I would say it is a permanent foundation, but goodness only knows. It maybe another of HS2's many Olympic size swimming pools they keep building along the route

5:ll It's going to be a turntable probably - swing the whole train around and send it back to Old Oak Common. Seriously though, these temporary constructions appear and disappear all the time. It could be a future temporary car park, a message to aliens, a landing strip for Sir Keir Starmer's private jet or a place to store the various aggregates they need. After careful thought , my money is on the latter.