Ministers have instructed officials to retain key sections of the HS2 line north of Birmingham in a move that will enable a new HS2-lite rail link to be built in the future, The i Paper can reveal.

(Bloomberg) -- UK Transport Secretary Louise Haigh launched an independent review of the HS2 high-speed railway line project to get a grip on spiraling costs. Costs attached to the rail project, which ...

LONDON, Oct 17 (Reuters) - The new Labour government will not revive a plan to build a high speed railway line from the central English city of Birmingham to northern England, a source said, denying ...

The high-speed rail link between Birmingham and London has been hit by a series of setbacks and now HS2 has confirmed that ...

Sadiq Khan has stressed the urgency of bringing High Speed 2 to Euston just hours before the Government announces spending cuts which could include cancelling the required tunnel link. The mayor ...

Rishi Sunak scraps the rest of the HS2 rail project in England due to spiralling costs, meaning only the new London Euston to Birmingham line will be built He pledges to "reinvest every penny" saved - ...

LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Britain's transport minister said the long-delayed HS2 railway will likely run all the way to central London, following speculation around the future of the ...

The cost of the UK’s HS2 high speed rail link rose to as much as £67 billion ($85 billion), even after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak dramatically shrank the project by canceling its northern leg.

Two years ago, then-prime minister Rishi Sunak scrapped phase 2 of the HS2 line from the West Midlands to Manchester – but ...

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 ...

A vast dig to lay the foundations for Britain’s new high-speed train network is helping to unearth rich new details about ancient Roman life. Archaeologists on Thursday hailed the discovery of an ...