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HS2 will mean trains from London to Birmingham Airport in 32 minutes

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 ...
BBC

Landslide: Birmingham to London rail disruption continues

Commuters have faced further travel delays after a landslide blocked a railway between Coventry and Rugby. Disruption, which has affected tens of thousands of passengers, is expected to last into ...
Birmingham Mail

Train passengers from Birmingham to London warned of disruption following landslip

Train services on the West Coast Main Line between Birmingham and London are being cancelled or delayed following a landslip near Rugby. Network Rail has warned that one of the two tracks which ...
The Independent

Rail chaos on key Birmingham-London route following landslip

Tens of thousands of travellers are facing severely extended journeys due to a landslip between Rugby and Coventry. Normally this is an extremely busy stretch of line, shared between intercity trains ...
The Financial Times

Cost of London-to-Birmingham leg of HS2 jumps by a fifth to £54bn

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 ...