Different centuries meet on HS2 project
Britain’s troubled but impressive high-speed rail engineering project, HS2, has crossed paths with the Grand Union Canal. The twenty-first-century railway project has been mired in controversy, and now it has met with an infrastructure project...Read more
HS2 “green tunnel” for Solihul
Britain’s new high-speed railway, HS2, connecting London and Birmingham, has been approved to build a “green tunnel” under Burton Green, a community lying east of Solihull, in the English West Midlands. The 400-metre green tunnel...Read more
Britain’s HS2 project launches a third tunnel boring machine under London
The London tunnels programme of Britain’s high-speed rail project, HS2, has marked a notable milestone. The project to build a new railway between London and Birmingham has launched a third tunnel boring machine (TBM) beneath...Read more
Sceptical response to “reannounced” UK transport funding package
Rishi Sunak, the UK Prime Minister, chose Monday to visit the North East of England. The publicity for the visit revolved around what he called a 4.7 billion pound (5.5 billion euro) redeployment of funds...Read more
HS2 maintenance depot development receives design approval
Britain’s HS2 high-speed rail project has had a welcome boost. Approval has been granted for the design of a system-wide infrastructure maintenance depot at Calvert in Buckinghamshire. The site will be at the intersection between...Read more
HS2 preparations in West Midlands speedily spans motorway
Contractors working for HS2 have removed a 4,000-tonne bridge over the M42 motorway. The work is to make way for the construction of the new high-speed line across the motorway near the Interchange Station construction...Read more
Britain’s HS2 project is the subject of damning report from parliament
HS2 is now very poor value for money, says an all-party report. The Public Accounts Committee has been examining the economic viability of the high-speed railway, now that it has been reduced to a shuttle...Read more
HS2 Birmingham Curzon Street build begins
HS2 Limited, the company formed to deliver Britain’s high-speed rail project, has begun construction on the landmark Birmingham Curzon Street Station. Whatever else may have been said about the project, the spades are in the...Read more
HS2 reveals shortlist for mass transit system at Solihull Interchange
Interchange, Airport, West Coast Main Line station, and the National Exhibition Centre. Not much point in having a high-speed railway on the doorstep if you have to walk between the plane and the train (or...Read more
No first class seat and shorter trains, the HS2 cuts that were not expected
A British newspaper claims to have seen documents from within the UK government. The internal memo suggests that passengers might not be sitting so comfortably on the HS2 high speed railway project. The cancellation of...Read more
For sale: the land previously held for HS2 Northern Leg .. or not
The UK government has announced that land previously designated for the now-cancelled northern leg of the HS2 high-speed rail project has had restrictions on its use lifted, allowing owners freedom, and even for sale on the...Read more
HS2 cut back everywhere, except in the price tag
The head of HS2, Sir Jonathan Thompson, has appeared before the UK Parliament Transport Select Committee. He was called to give a briefing on the progress of the project. Sir Jon was candid about the...Read more
UK 2023: twelve months on the rails
Reviewing 2023 reveals a year of ups and downs. Downest of them all was probably the ditching of the Manchester leg of the HS2 project, writes UK Correspondent Simon Walton. It was the ultimate slap...Read more