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A GRAVEYARD cleared of 50,000 bodies to make way for HS2 is to remain a wasteland for at least a decade.
Work has been paused on the London Euston terminus for which St James’s Gardens burial ground was cleared.
It follows five years of effort by archaeologists and specialists to dig up and study the bodies at Camden, North London.
The remains, which date from as far back as the 1600s, have been transferred to Brookwood Cemetery, Surrey.
Among them was Royal Navy Captain Matthew Flinders, who charted much of the coast of Australia.
HS2 bosses insist the site will still be used for a scaled-back Euston expansion one day.
Yet the project has been laying off staff amid soaring costs.
A spokesman said: “Some works will be deferred, like Euston Station.
"We’re assessing the next steps.”
