HS2 silvered £ 20,000 on a model station made of LEGO – publishing the equivalent of £ 1 per plastic brick – and used it at 20 events in two years.
The toys were used to re -create a planned site to help inform communities, companies and the public about a new train station.
The LEGO version turned out to be roughly the size of a kitchen table, and consultants brick McGee were paid to build it.
It included Lego trees, miniature route master buses and small black cabins and LED lights for its platforms and their escalators.
The 'New Transport Superhub in West London' Old Oak Common Station will have 14 platforms and it is clear that it will wear 250,000 passengers a day to Birmingham.
But according to the Telegraph, the model has only been shown at around 20 events in the two years since the construction.
Bricks McGee said on his website that it developed a 'digital model' and then 'the difficult process to build it with real LEGO bricks – all 15,000 of them'.
'Bricks were used to bring the model from the screen to its 3D opposite – everything from the trees and the swimming pool to a community art wall, bicycle courts, bus stops and taxis are included.
HS2 silvered £ 20,000 on a model station made of Lego – publishing the equivalent of £ 1 per plastic brick – and used it at 20 events in two years
The LEGO trees, miniature routemaster buses and small black cabins and LED lights for its platforms and their escalators
The LEGO version turned out to be roughly the size of a kitchen table, and consultants brick McGee were paid to build it
'One of the striking features of the new Oude Oak Common Station model is the series of curved roof panels that extends over the hall and the primary pedestrian bridge to platforms.
“This futuristic roof had to be recreated in Lego stones – but how?”
It is supposed to be used at HS2 promotional events in the past 18 months, including in Paddington in London.
A HS2 spokesperson told The Telegraph: 'Our LEGO model of the Oude Oak Common Superhub of HS2 is an informative way to involve local communities, companies, railway users and the general public about the construction of part of the new high-speed railroad.
“It has been seen by thousands of people since it was put into use more than two years ago, so that those affected by the Build, as well as future passengers, understand the station better.”
HS2 is currently set up to cost the taxpayer more than £ 80 billion by the time it opened in the 2030s.
In November it turned out that HS2 is blowing more than £ 100 million on a steel mesh 'barn' to protect bats against struck by the high speed trains.
The chairman of the executive chairman Sir Jon Thompson told a railway conference that the structure in Buckinghamshire is needed to appease Natural England because bats are legally protected in the UK.
Bricks McGee said on his website that it developed a 'digital model' and then 'the difficult process to build it with real LEGO bricks – all 15,000 of them'
HS2 was also blasted about the structure of the mesh 'bat tunnel' at Sheephouse Wood, demanded by Natural England because bats are legally protected in the UK
This is despite the fact that there is 'no evidence' that the trains will disrupt the mammals, he said.
He claimed that this is an example of the 'real problem' of the UK with the completion of large infrastructure projects.
The public company built up the structure next to forest to protect the bat of the Bechstein, which is very rare in the UK.
Former conservative Prime Minister Liz Truss made the idea of spending money on 'Bat Bridges' to help protect the mammal that increases the costs of an expansion of the A11 in Norfolk.
Mark Wild told MEPs that the frequently critized and eye -water expensive structure in Buckinghamshire was the 'most suitable' way to 'meet the law'.
The costs of the project have so far spotted that Rishi Sunak, the former Prime Minister, has canceled his planned northern leg in 2023 to insert it.
The government said it would continue the southern leg of HS2 in Euston, but did not promise any public money.
Mark Wild, the new Chief Executive of HS2, recently said that HS2 had been 'a drip feed of bad news' and said he spent the costs of the project under control for the next 18 months.
He said, “It will take a reasonable time, but as soon as it is ready, you would expect it to be completely holding when we open the railway between Old Oak Common and Curzon Street.”
