HS2 high speed railway trains could be made to run slower than initially planned to keep costs down. The government has ...

The head of HS2 Ltd will report by mid-July on how slowing down trains could affect the project's cost and delivery date.

You might have assumed that HS2 could not possibly become any more of a fiasco. But if so, you were gravely mistaken. Because ...

Company will assess whether drop to 186mph from 224mph will save money and help bring forward launch ...

The government is looking at ways to make much-delayed London to Birmingham railway line cheaper to deliver.

The head of crisis-hit HS2 has been named Britain’s highest-paid public servant, earning four times the salary of the Prime ...

Nowhere is it more of a mess than between Steeple Claydon and Calvert, Buckinghamshire. Some roads are closed, others lead to depots filled with lorries. Great earth mounds rise skywards where green ...

Construction of the 140-mile HS2 high-speed rail line is continuing, even as the project company's acting CEO said its cost could exceed its budget by $14 billion. Photo courtesy of HS2 Ltd. January ...

After years of setbacks, controversy and spiralling costs, phase two of the long-awaited HS2 rail project appears to be under threat. The Independent has exclusively revealed that prime minister Rishi ...

Doubling tariffs on imported steel will raise cost of the metal when Iran war is already inflating steel and concrete prices ...

Fatima's laugh and enthusiasm are infectious - she clearly loves what she is doing. At the moment she is driving a dumper truck around a muddy site just off Hampstead Road. Fatima is one the first ...

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 ...