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 ...

Ministers are preparing to overhaul a £2billion deal for HS2's high-speed trains after discovering the locomotives are the ...

Senior executives in charge of the £45bn Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) project must regularly assess its cost to avoid huge ...

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 ...

Two of Europe’s leading high-speed rail engineering consultancies, Ayesa Engineering and Egis, have been appointed to provide services for the delivery of track infrastructure for HS2.

Sir Keir Starmer is set to announce plans to build a new railway line between Birmingham and Manchester just over two years after the HS2 expansion was scrapped. Rishi Sunak cancelled building the ...

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 ...

Businesses in Birmingham are calling for the HS2 extension to Crewe to unlock economic growth and fulfil its original goals, warning of reduced impact without changes.