How a 128-year-old pub has survived a £570,000,000 train station upgrade

The Woodman is bounded on three sides by the major Curzon Street HS2 work in Birmingham city centre (Picture: Joseph Walshe, SWNS)

It’s the last of three 19th Century pubs left standing in the vicinity of a sprawling HS2 building site. 

The construction work to build the Curzon Street intercity terminus in Birmingham is so close to the 128-year-old Woodman that the barriers are now just 10ft from its side wall.  

The ‘backstreet boozer’ is hemmed in on three sides by the £570...