Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The total cost of HS2 may end up being closer to £80 billion, the Public Accounts Committee said - Aaron Chown/PA HS2 has become a ...

High-speed rail between London and Birmingham may never be delivered because the government and HS2 lack “the skills or capacities” to complete the project, a powerful committee of MPs has warned. The ...

HS2 will provide more track, more trains, more seats and faster journeys to improve performance and reliability across Britain’s rail network.” So says the hitherto dysfunctional organisation that has ...

Linda Franklin, who lives opposite a construction site in Water Orton, says she "dreads coming home".

The UK government is set to announce that the completion of the High Speed 2 rail line will be delayed and the cost will rise, faulting the previous Conservative administration for wasting billions of ...

Senior government officials have defended a decision to put a key strand of the £45bn Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) ...

The U.K.'s longest railway bridge completed construction on Thursday after more than two years of work. Situated on the outskirts of London, the Colne Valley viaduct is part of the UK's High Speed 2 ...

HS2 bosses argue that, despite delays and overspends, the project is still pouring billions of pounds into the West Midlands economy, creating jobs and boosting investment. But when high speed trains ...

This is the eerie millionaire's row where massive mansions bought up by crisis-hit HS2 are padlocked shut and now lay empty. The troubled high-speed railway that is supposed to form the backbone of ...

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 ...