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Memorial plaques and monuments honouring soldiers who served in armed conflict along the corridor , including at Clayton and St Albans are also a nice touch , and the project works with Veterans in Construction , which helps secure veterans a pathway in to the construction industry .

There used to be an Avenue of Honour where trees had been planted for veterans . The project took the seeds from those original trees and planted them early on to grow saplings , “ and we explains it was important to retain the history .

“ It ’ s marrying the new with the old ,” he says . “ In the seating backs we ’ ve installed at all these stations , we recognise the history of each of the individual places . So , whilst it looks like a brand new station you can catch the train from , there ’ s actually old historical images and photos so you get a sense of what that area used to look like .

“ Again , we ’ re very conscious that , whilst we were building new infrastructure , we wanted to recognise and look back and reflect on the past that ’ d come before us .”

JANUARY 2019