Earlier this year, the U.K. Dept. for Transport ordered a two-year work pause on the HS2 Euston Station in London. Photo courtesy of HS2 Ltd. October 4, 2023 Having progressively whittled down the ...

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 rows of hoardings that line the stalled HS2 site in Euston serve as a constant reminder of the years of uncertainty that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The UK government spending watchdog took aim at major infrastructure projects including the HS2 rail link, saying reviving productivity in public services would unlock 10s of billions of pounds a year ...

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has taken the axe to Britain’s biggest current infrastructure project, ignoring warnings from business leaders that a U-turn would damage investor confidence in 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 ...