Ministers are drawing up plans for a major new passenger rail line linking London, Manchester and Leeds, with HS2 set to be ...

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

Company will assess whether drop to 186mph from 224mph will save money and help bring forward launch ...

High Speed 2 - known as HS2 - was originally commissioned to run at 360km/h, which would have made its trains the fastest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Edge, 74, said further uncertainty now shrouds the future of his business after transport minister Heidi Alexander announced ...

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 ...

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has tasked HS2 chief executive Mark Wild with testing whether stripping out complexity ...

The UK government has ordered a HS2 overhaul to cut construction time and reduce costs to taxpayers, aiming to deliver faster ...

A dairy farmer who won a fight to stop almost half of his land being seized for the scrapped HS2 line from Birmingham and Manchester says the family farm could be under threat again. John Edge, 74, ...

HS2 trains may be slowed down in a bid to stop the £100billion project spiralling further out of control. Ministers are ...

A man who sold his home to HS2 says he was left distraught after discovering it had been turned into a cannabis factory. Alan Wilkinson bought the four-bedroom home in the hillside village of Whitmore ...