The first big change is to High Speed 2 (HS2). The second is Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR). HS2 was meant to be a brand new Y-shaped line ... Below is the core route map for HS2 and NPR by ...

Critics say the project's costs are 'utterly out of control' and that progress has been so slow due to how contracts were ...

A slower and cheaper 50-mile railway line could be built in place of a scrapped section of HS2, a new report has revealed. The alternative route between Staffordshire and Cheshire, which would ...

People who lost their homes and firms along the scrapped northern route of the HS2 rail link will not get any new compensation, Transport Secretary Mark Harper has told the BBC. Those people have ...

It decided to upgrade existing routes for HS2 trains, instead of building new ones. HS2 will not go to Manchester In June, the government said it would still build HS2 from London Euston to ...

Peter Howarth, from the Killamarsh and Renishaw HS2 Action Group, said he understands the revised route will now miss out the majority of their area. But the new route through North Derbyshire and ...

A host of road and rail closures are scheduled this summer as work on the controversial HS2 line intensifies across Warwickshire. Phase 1 of the high-speed route sweeps right the way through east ...