TAXPAYERS are facing a £10.2million bill for selling redundant property bought to make way for the cancelled northern section ...

“Thanks to HS2, this region will be just 38 minutes from central London — about Zone 5 on the Tube map,” West Midlands mayor ...

The British government is spending £42.6 billion on a new west-coast railway line rather than providing the whole nation with superfast broadband. It seems the UK can afford HS2 (High Speed 2) but not ...

Earlier this year, the U.K. Dept. for Transport ordered a two-year work pause on the HS2 Euston Station in London. Photo courtesy of HS2 Ltd. October 4, 2023 Having progressively whittled down the ...

The 2.1-mile Colne Valley viaduct is about a third complete. Photo courtesy of HS2 Ltd. December 28, 2023 With its workforce now peaking at around 30,000, the U.K.'s London-Birmingham 140-mile HS2 ...

Completing the shortened leg of the UK’s HS2 high speed rail link offers taxpayers “very poor value for money,” while problems with the planned London terminus and how the new trains will run on old ...

The decision by former UK prime minister Rishi Sunak’ to scrap the second phase of the UK’s controversial HS2 high speed rail line cost the country more than £2 billion (US$2.6 billion) a new report ...

The UK government spending watchdog took aim at major infrastructure projects including the HS2 rail link, saying reviving productivity in public services would unlock 10s of billions of pounds a year ...

Work underway on the site for the Birmingham terminus of the new HS2 railway line. Credit: Geof Sheppard via Flickr. The UK Department for Transport (DfT) has given the ‘Notice to Proceed’ for the ...

The UK and China have held "preliminary discussions" over giving Beijing's state-owned railway firm a role in building the HS2 high-speed rail line. However, government officials said no "concrete ...

The new HS2 platforms (blue) will be joined to the existing Leeds station platforms (pink). Credit: Department for Transport UK. Construction of the HS2 project in the UK will support 15,000 jobs in ...