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.

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

Birmingham Airport could be a realistic option for flying in and out of London when the High Speed 2 rail line opens, experts said today as journey times will be slashed. Train passengers have been ...

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

UK: The launch of a second TBM to drive from Old Oak Common towards Euston offers renewed hope that High Speed 2 will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HS2 ‘should be cancelled’ amid reports it may not run to central London A peer behind an HS2 review commissioned by ex-prime ...

With the final route for the HS2 rail link now confirmed, work can begin on how it will look. Design firms Arup, Mott MacDonald, WSP, Arcadis and a Jacobs/BuroHappold/Idom joint venture are all in the ...

Tunnelling work to link the HS2 high-speed train route to Euston has begun, in a major milestone for the troubled project. The first of two 1,624-tonne tunnel boring machines was set in motion on ...

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

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has been setting out his long-term vision for how to boost the UK's economy after a week of criticism from industry groups He defended not cutting taxes right now, saying ...