HS2 is now poised to cost the taxpayer as much as £102bn and will not run from Euston until at least 2040, according to the transport secretary who blasted the project as a “massively over-specced ...

The HS2 track systems have been designed for smooth operations, to run safely at speeds of up to 360km/h and diverging speeds up to 230km/h. Credit: Cory Woodward on Unsplash. HS2 has announced that ...

Fuel duty is set to go up in September when a freeze on the tax runs out The government is reportedly planning to reverse its decision to scrap the northern leg of HS2, extending the high-speed rail ...

The National Infrastructure Commission has now published its Rail Needs Assessment for the Midlands and the North. With the HS2 Phase 2a Bill nearing completion of its passage through Parliament, this ...

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander gave a significant update on the costs and timetable of the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project, which has suffered major delays and spiralling costs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of Rishi Sunak, Jeremy Hunt and Keir Starmer with trains. A great "will he, won't he" of British politics rumbled on ...

More than £300 million has already been spent on the controversial HS2 rail link in less than three years, new figures have revealed. Sign up for the top news stories every day to keep you informed ...

"It is vital that we get on board the high-speed revolution." Those were the words of UK Prime Minister David Cameron, following his government’s announcement earlier this month of its plans for the ...

There will be no unplanned delays due to HS2 track problems, the company building the high speed railway has claimed. In a UK first, infrastructure monitoring equipment such as video, lasers and ...

A great "will he, won't he" of British politics rumbled on today after Rishi Sunak repeatedly refused to say if the northern leg of HS2 will be scrapped. Asked on "BBC Breakfast" whether he was set to ...

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