A coruscating report has put the high speed rail project HS2 on the most serious level of fiscal mismanagement. The UK government appointed but independent watchdog, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, has placed the multi-billion...Read more
Hitachi Rail, the UK arm of the Japanese multi-national engineering giants, has won an eight-year contract to maintain the TransPennine Express fleet of 19 ‘Nova 1’ intercity trains. They were well placed to win the...Read more
Will Britain’s high speed railway come to Manchester? There is still a massive cloud over the prospect of HS2 ever reaching the North West of England, but the company set up to deliver the huge...Read more
Speculation about the HS2 project potentially tunnelling under Manchester has ignited a heated debate among authorities and residents alike. If Britain’s high speed railway reaches as far north as Manchester, there’s a proposal that it...Read more
In a significant step towards a greener rail industry, Colas Rail UK has recently conducted trials using hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) as an alternative to diesel fuel in their locomotives. This move aims to significantly...Read more
HS2, the British high speed rail project is still on track. The brakes may be firmly applied to work at Euston in Central London, but the throttle is wide open on work at Old Oak...Read more
It would be cheaper to deliver Britain’s HS2 high speed rail project quickly, instead of the UK government decision to pause work on non-core parts of the route. Slowing down the building of the initial...Read more
Work on the London Euston terminal of the HS2 high-speed rail project has been paused, along with several other parts of the one hundred billion pound (about 115 billion euro) project. A recent report from...Read more
There has been disappointment from supporters, and delight from detractors, over the news that construction of Britain’s high speed rail project, HS2, would be “paused” over much of its length, with the exception of the...Read more
The UK’s new High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project has commissioned voestalpine Railway Systems to supply critical components for the London to Birmingham line. The global leading supplier of complete railway systems, has won a...Read more
In scenes of jubilation reminiscent of the Channel Tunnel meeting in 1990, HS2 workers celebrated a major breakthrough under the Warwickshire countryside. The 2,000 tonne tunnel boring machine ‘Dorothy’ has completed second bore of Long...Read more
Controversy has followed the UK government decision last week to slow down the construction of HS2. Ironically, the high-speed railway project will be a slow-speed build, long into the next decade. The government in London...Read more
Sources close to the British high speed rail project HS2 have said that the project is to be delayed in an effort to cut spiralling costs. Only the section between London and Birmingham is to...Read more
The builders of HS2, the high speed railway project in England, have confirmed that ‘Florence’ and ‘Cecilia’ – the two giant tunnelling machines digging the project’s longest tunnels – have passed Amersham, 5-and-a-half miles into...Read more
HS2 Limited, the company formed to build Britain’s high speed railway line, is engaging local communities in Manchester to discuss proposed changes to its construction designs. They say the purpose is to reduce future flood...Read more