Britain helped invent the railway, but it never built the kind of bullet train network seen in Japan, China, and France. The ...

HS2 could cost more than £100 billion and may not open until 2039, Britain's Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has announced.

HS2 is now led by a serious railwayman, Mark Wild, who rescued London’s Crossrail project from national ignominy. I believe ...

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander gave a significant update on the costs and timetable of the High Speed 2 (HS2) rail project, which has suffered major delays and spiralling costs ...

The Transport Secretary has said the high-speed rail line will not be completed until 2039.

The government is in thrall to the sunk-cost fallacy. Scrap the project, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins ...

Ministers will not set an exact target date for the completion of HS2 after the final deadline for the long-delayed project ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's full steam ahead for Britain's major high speed rail project, HS2 Prime Minister Boris Johnson gave the green light for ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is cancelling the construction of a key section of the costly HS2 high-speed railway, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday, angering people and businesses in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Britain's Queen Elizabeth and Terry Morgan the Chairman of Crossrail, attend the formal unveiling of the new logo for ...

David Higgins, chief executive, said: “Parts of our national rail network are straining at the seams and in little more than a decade our busiest, most important inter-city rail artery - the west ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mr Wild is paid to deliver the HS2 programme ‘safely, on time and in a cost-efficient manner’ - Jonathan Brady/PA The head of ...