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HS2

  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    HS2 Ltd could fall under direct state control after government review

    Whitehall and industry figures say governance at company responsible for High Speed 2 rail link to be scrutinised

    The  tunnel boring machine before it is lifted into place at the Victoria Road Crossover Box HS2 site, near to Old Oak Common in west London
  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    Rail
    New rail line needed between Midlands and northern England, study says

    The 80km of track could be built faster and cheaper than axed HS2 leg, says research

    Class 390 154 races north of Rugby as it joins the Trent Valley section of the West Coast Main Line with London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly service
  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    HS2 cancellation cost UK taxpayers £2bn, report finds

    Rishi Sunak axed plans for northern leg of railway after long delays and budget overruns

    A woman walks past an HS2 poster
  • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
    Britons may need to be put off taking trains due to HS2 curtailment, watchdog says

    Axing northern leg between Birmingham and Manchester will mean fewer seats on existing rail services, NAO says

    Members of the engineering team behind HS2’s longest tunnel celebrate after the boring machine broke through on February 27, 2024 in Great Missenden
  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    Labour asks why taxpayers are set to fund HS2 work despite Sunak pledge

    Government readies £1bn injection even though prime minister said last year private sector would cover Euston costs

    Construction work continues on the HS2 site in Euston on February 5, 2024 in London
  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
    Taxpayers set to fund HS2 tunnel under London despite Sunak pledge

    £1bn injection would end uncertainty over whether railway line will reach its planned central London terminus at Euston

    Workers behind the cutterhead of tunnel boring machine (TBM) Lydia after breaking through a concrete wall as it completes the construction of the Atlas Road logistics tunnel as part of the Old Oak Common project of the HS2 rail project
  • Sunday, 31 March, 2024
    Alstom SA
    Alstom set to mothball Derby plant over HS2 order delays

    Factory does not have enough work to keep functioning normally in the coming years

    Trains being constructed
  • Saturday, 23 March, 2024
    Lack of orders puts future of HS2 train factories in doubt

    Government decision heightens risk of significant lay-offs at Hitachi and Alstom’s UK plants

    An artist’s impression of what the Hitachi-Alstom trains could look like
  • Thursday, 21 March, 2024
    City mayors put forward alternative to axed HS2 northern leg

    Leaders of West Midlands and Greater Manchester propose cheaper 70-mile high-speed line along roughly the same route

    Hoardings on the perimeter at the HS2 Curzon Street development site in Birmingham
  • Wednesday, 10 January, 2024
    UK HS2 high-speed railway’s estimated cost soars to £67bn

    Project chair Sir Jon Thompson tells MPs there are no guarantees price of London to Birmingham line will not rise again

    Workers inside the Victoria Road ancillary shaft at the HS2 Victoria Road Crossover Box construction project in London
  • Thursday, 21 December, 2023
    UK government spending
    ‘Network North’ HS2 savings spent on London pothole repair

    Government draws ire of northern mayors after redirecting £235mn for road surfacing in the capital

    A car going over a pothole
  • Sunday, 26 November, 2023
    Interview
    Sunak’s private funding plan for HS2 tunnel set to fail, warns adviser

    Chair of National Infrastructure Commission says government will have to pay for tunnel under London

    Anne, a tunnel boring machine that will excavate parts of HS2
  • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
    Cost of HS2 rail link jumps by £3bn in a month

    Price tag for high-speed London to Birmingham line is raised to £57bn just weeks after previous big increase

    HS2 promotional hoardings surround a construction site near Euston, London
  • Tuesday, 14 November, 2023
    UK infrastructure
    UK infrastructure projects hit by homeworking, says government adviser

    Comments will inflame running debate over impact of post-pandemic employee shift

    Construction workers near the Old Oak Common HS2 site
  • Friday, 27 October, 2023
    London mayor says Sunak plan for HS2 Euston leg ‘verging on fantasy’

    Sadiq Khan rejects prime minister’s suggestion that private sector will pay for 4.5-mile stretch of high-speed rail project

    Work continues at the Victoria Road Crossover Box ancillary shaft HS2 site near to Old Oak Common in west London
  • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
    Cost of London-to-Birmingham leg of HS2 jumps by a fifth to £54bn

    Increase comes after UK government axed rest of line to Manchester in bid to save £36bn

    A tunnel boring machine at the Victoria Road Crossover Box HS2 site in London
  • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
    FT MagazineSimon Kuper
    The case against HS2

    Even in countries bigger than England, high-speed rail is often a vanity project that escapes public scrutiny

    Illustration of a white elephant behind a blue train
  • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
    News in-depth
    How Sunak decided to slash the UK’s troubled HS2 rail project

    Prime minister’s fateful announcement to cull the northern leg of high-speed rail was months in the making

    Montage of Rishi Sunak with Andrew Gilligan and a front page of The  Independent
  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    The HS2 rail line: what has been cut and what will replace it?

    The £36bn saved from cancelling the northern leg is meant to fund smaller transport schemes

    Montage of HS2 route
  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    UK politics
    Sunak axes northern leg of HS2 in flurry of ‘radical’ decisions

    Prime minister confirms high-speed rail decision and also announces education reforms and smoking curbs

    PM Rishi Sunak delivers his keynote speech at the Conservative party conference on October 4 2023
  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    FT live news
    Rishi Sunak’s first Tory conference speech as leader: as it happened
  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    Northern leg of HS2 will be cancelled, Grant Shapps confirms

    Rishi Sunak to announce decision on high speed rail line in his Conservative conference speech

    A worker on the construction site for the Euston station section of HS2
  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    Hunt pushed for HS2 rail line to end in central London

    UK chancellor argued successfully for a Euston terminus as Rishi Sunak prepares to axe the route’s northern leg

    Person walks by an HS2 poster
  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    News in-depth
    The ‘rabidly anti-HS2’ aide who has Rishi Sunak’s ear

    Former journalist Andrew Gilligan has long railed against the high-speed rail project and its managers

    Andrew Gilligan
  • Tuesday, 3 October, 2023
    Sunak runs the gauntlet with plan to axe northern leg of HS2

    PM set to announce the scaling back of the flagship UK infrastructure project in Tory conference speech

    A montage of Rishi Sunak and a train
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