While the federal government considers an ambitious plan, a similar project in the UK has seen its fair share of ...

Residents give the BBC their views on the government's new Birmingham-to-Manchester rail line plan.

The beleaguered HS2 rail project will serve “most of northern England” when the line to and from London Euston is finally completed, the rail minister has said. Lord Hendy was speaking at a ceremony ...

Digging machine Florence completes HS2’s longest tunnel, a 10-mile journey under the Chiltern Hills, in February 2024 - Aaron Chown/PA In 2019, HS2 Ltd’s new chairman, Allan Cook, an engineer, told ...

Ministers have instructed officials to retain key sections of the HS2 line north of Birmingham in a move that will enable a new HS2-lite rail link to be built in the future, The i Paper can reveal.

HS2 ran tens of billions of pounds over budget and will open years late because it was designed to be unnecessarily fast, MPs have been told. Lord Hendy, the rail minister, made the claim as he ...

The Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, has called on Labour to deliver “change” for the North by recommitting at least £17bn for a new railway line between Manchester and Liverpool. A new ...

LONDON, Oct 30 (Reuters) - British finance minister Rachel Reeves said on Wednesday the southern leg of the HS2 railway line should run to central London, and that the government would commit funding ...

HS2 has been accused of “madness” after new figures reveal it has spent £37m of taxpayers’ cash buying up homes – long after parts of the high-speed rail line were scrapped. At least £1m was spent on ...

LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The new Labour government will not revive a plan to build a high speed railway line from the central English city of Birmingham to northern England, a source said, denying ...

Asked about such calls to abandon HS2, Birmingham Council’s leader John Cotton said this week: “Firstly, it proves [Reform] ...

An early visualisation of an HS2 high-speed train in the UK. Credit: High Speed Two Ltd. UK’s HS2 is inviting small and medium-sized technology firms to submit proposals aimed at lowering costs and ...