While the federal government considers an ambitious plan, a similar project in the UK has seen its fair share of ...

Birmingham Council’s leader has issued a defiant defence of HS2 amid calls to scrap the divisive project.

Unite said the DfT’s answers tally with concerns that UK steel producers have raised with the union (John Giles/PA) (PA Archive) A leading trade union has accused the Government of failing to ensure ...

The government is looking for partners for a major public-private deal to design, build and maintain the planned HS2 Euston station terminus ...

It forms part of the ongoing works ...

The 2.1-mile Colne Valley viaduct is about a third complete. Photo courtesy of HS2 Ltd. December 28, 2023 With its workforce now peaking at around 30,000, the U.K.'s London-Birmingham 140-mile HS2 ...

In one of the most comprehensive critiques of HS2 since its conception, a report from the left-leaning think tank New Economics Foundation (NEF) calls for the high-speed rail link to be scrapped and ...

Completing the shortened leg of the UK’s HS2 high speed rail link offers taxpayers “very poor value for money,” while problems with the planned London terminus and how the new trains will run on old ...

Work underway on the site for the Birmingham terminus of the new HS2 railway line. Credit: Geof Sheppard via Flickr. The UK Department for Transport (DfT) has given the ‘Notice to Proceed’ for the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Louise Haigh, the UK transport secretary, has admitted that the cost of building the High Speed 2 rail line is ...

A leading trade union has accused the Government of failing to ensure the HS2 rail project is using steel produced in the UK. Unite said it was “alarmed” at information revealed in a series of ...