More than £43bn has been spent on building HS2 so far with the government today pledging a fresh attempt to cut the building programme and construction cost. In its latest six mo ...

HS2 high speed railway trains could be made to run slower than initially planned to keep costs down. The government has ...

Latest DfT report into project out this afternoon but will not give update on cost and schedule range which is now due by ...

A few hundred yards from one of the country’s biggest HS2 builds, residents are getting used to life in the shadow of towering cranes and a stream of works traffic. The construction of a £570 million ...

Proposals by HS2 to restore an old station building in central Birmingham have been approved, but the government has been urged to "get on with the high-speed railway". A Birmingham City Council ...

Doubling tariffs on imported steel will raise cost of the metal when Iran war is already inflating steel and concrete prices ...

The government needs to set out its intentions to address rail capacity issues north of Birmingham, an MP has said, as powers linked to building HS2 are due to expire shortly. The legal powers for the ...

None of this is to suggest that similar nations operate without constraints, or that Britain should abandon its protection ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Digging machine Florence completes HS2’s longest tunnel, a 10-mile journey under the Chiltern Hills, in February 2024 - Aaron ...

HS2 spent more than £20,000 on a single Lego model of one of its railway stations after billions of taxpayer funds were used on the vastly over-budget project. The equivalent of £1 per piece was spent ...

Birmingham residents have been given a further glimpse of what the future could hold for the old Curzon Street Station. Opened in 1838, the station was the first direct railway line linking Birmingham ...