Around 23% of HS2 will run through tunnels, compared with 18% of the Elizabeth line. If including cuttings – sections of a ...

Construction of HS2’s Handsacre Link, which connects the high-speed line with the West Coast Main Line, has been paused for a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Plans to connect the UK’s High Speed 2 rail line to the West Coast Main Line beyond Birmingham have been put on ...

HS2 Ltd has announced the completion of major tunnel excavations between Birmingham and west London, after a key breakthrough. A tunnel boring machine (TBM) concluded an 18-month journey on Monday, ...

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's new high speed railway line, HS2, which hopes to connect London to northern England, will be delayed by at least four years, the company said on Wednesday. This is the ...

HS2 Ltd has completed the digging of major tunnels on its route between London and Birmingham. The company building the high-speed railway said a tunnel boring machine (TBM) broke through at Washwood ...

View of the Fosse Way (B4455) bridge with the Offchurch Greenway bridge behind (image credit: HS2) HS2 has opened a pair of bridges near Leamington Spa which carry a key road and a long-distance cycle ...

A section of new railway linking HS2 to the existing West Coast Main Line has been delayed, to prioritise the core high-speed route between Birmingham and London. HS2 Ltd said work on the stretch ...

HS2 boss Mark Wild has been looking for ways to get the project back on track A section of new railway linking HS2 to the existing West Coast Main Line has been delayed, to prioritise the core ...

A decision on the winner of the last major building project yet to be awarded on the first phase of HS2 has slipped again. The £480m scheme at Washwood Heath in Birmingham has been hit by a series of ...

A twin bridge is being installed across a major UK motorway as part of the HS2 project. The M6 was reopened ahead of schedule after engineers slid a section of the new viaduct across the motorway. The ...

The chair of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has raised concerns that HS2’s Euston scheme has not been not classed as a mega-project. In his first annual report as chair of the government’s ...