Amid reports of soaring costs caused by inflation, High Speed Two (HS2) railway bosses are reportedly contemplating scaling back the project significantly or scrapping it completely. HS2 ...

Mark Wild, chief executive of HS2, said the project has “great value, intrinsic value”. He made the comments days after an influential group of MPs described HS2 as an example of “how not to ...

It has been used at around 20 events over the last two years, the Sunday Telegraph reports. Years of financial mismanagement will see HS2 cost taxpayers more than £80 billion by the time it is ...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced the scrapping of Phase 2 of the HS2 rail project. The second phase of the high-speed rail was meant to extend Phase 1, the under-construction London-to ...

A farmer who had his land compulsory purchased to make way for HS2 said if England was going to benefit then it would have been worth it, but described the line as "pointless". Stephen Adkins is a ...

An aerial view of the HS2 viaduct construction at the Delta Junction on February 12, 2025 in Sutton Coldfield, England. The chief executive of a construction firm tasked with delivering Old Oak ...

HS2 will now only run between Euston and Old Oak Common. The much-blighted high speed line — which was originally touted to link London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, but has since been ...

The new transport super hub at Old Oak Common, where High Speed Rail 2 (HS2) and the Elizabeth Line will meet, could drive a ...

The firms want it to run to Crewe instead of the current plan to stop north of Birmingham. HS2 says it will transform journeys, but a farmer who has lost land is not happy. One resident in ...

A three-week closure of the A46 in Warwickshire will start in April, HS2 officials have said. The Kenilworth bypass will shut to allow a 14,500-tonne box structure, which will carry the railway ...

As part of the plans, HS2 spent £20,000 on a Lego model of Old Oak Common - a cost of more than £1 for each one of the model’s 15,000 bricks. A spokesperson for HS2 said it was used to improve ...