Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The cost of building the London-to-Birmingham stretch of the UK’s HS2 high-speed railway has jumped by a fifth ...

Millions of Londoners will be able to reach Birmingham Airport in under an hour once the controversial High Speed 2 line is opened. The line north from Old Oak Common in west London will have a ...

People can now travel from Birmingham to London for less than a tenner. Avanti West Coast has slashed its Superfare ticket between Birmingham and London Euston to just £9 one way. The Superfare ticket ...

Passengers travelling between London to Birmingham have been caught up in major rail disruption - delaying them for hours. A points failure at London Euston station led to a backlog of trains in the ...

The cost of building HS2’s London to Birmingham leg has jumped up to £68 billion, new estimates suggest Documents released by the Department for Transport (DfT) this month show that costs on the ...

HS2 will provide more track, more trains, more seats and faster journeys to improve performance and reliability across Britain’s rail network.” So says the hitherto dysfunctional organisation that has ...

The landslip has impacted a crucial section of the West Coast Main Line (Picture: @networkrailWCML/X) The main train route between London Euston and Birmingham has been cut off by a landslip on the ...

Regular trains run from Euston to Birmingham New Street station, which is in the centre of town (and architecturally has something of Flight of the Navigator about it). It takes between 1 hour 16 mins ...