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

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

The head of HS2 Ltd will report by mid-July on how slowing down trains could affect the project's cost and delivery date.

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 ...

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

The mayors of Greater Manchester and the West Midlands have unveiled three options to improve rail connections between the two regions following the scrapping of the planned HS2 link. Andy Burnham and ...

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.

The government is looking at ways to make much-delayed London to Birmingham railway line cheaper to deliver.

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

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 ...

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, ...