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 ...

An engineering firm has started work on a landmark rail deal. Booth Industries has begun making 300 cross-passage doors for ...

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 ...

ENGLAND’S troubled HS2 rail line has been hit with yet another massive cost increase and fresh delays, the government has confirmed. Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander revealed the latest ...

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 ...

Rail passengers are being asked to plan ahead as part of a major commuter route shuts for three days for HS2 work. No trains ...

Heidi Alexander tells the Commons the railway, originally estimated to cost £32.7bn, will now cost somewhere between ...

HS2 will be further delayed and ultimately cost more than £100bn, critics have claimed, after it emerged only a third of the preparatory work needed for the line is complete. Just 15 of the 310 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The UK’s High-Speed 2 (HS2) project, which will see a high-speed rail (HSR) spine running at speeds of up to 250mph from London to Birmingham before splitting into two branches connecting Manchester ...