The taxpayer-funded body behind the High Speed 2 railway line is mounting last-ditch talks to renegotiate the project’s civil engineering contracts, as it battles to curb soaring costs on the UK’s ...

TBM Karen will excavate the second bore of the 4.5-mile Euston Tunnel.

UK: The launch of a second TBM to drive from Old Oak Common towards Euston offers renewed hope that High Speed 2 will ...

The ICE hosted Mike Brown, chair of High Speed 2 Ltd, to discuss lessons for a successful reset of the project.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Digging machine Florence completes HS2’s longest tunnel, a 10-mile journey under the Chiltern Hills, in February 2024 - Aaron ...

The £2bn contract to build dozens of HS2 "bullet trains" is set for major changes as ministers prepare to outline fresh delays and cost overruns on the project. The deal, awarded in 2021 to a joint ...

Senior executives in charge of the £45bn Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) project must regularly assess its cost to avoid huge ...

A prominent dog whisperer is seeking over £8m in compensation from the government after his exclusive kennels were compulsorily acquired for the HS2 high-speed rail project. Matt ...

The A38, near Lichfield, is set to close in both directions between the Swinfen Interchange and Hilliard's Cross, near Fradley, Staffordshire, for 11 days over the Easter period. The road is closed ...

Ministers are preparing to overhaul a £2billion deal for HS2's high-speed trains after discovering the locomotives are the ...

HS2 ran tens of billions of pounds over budget and will open years late because it was designed to be unnecessarily fast, MPs have been told. Lord Hendy, the rail minister, made the claim as he ...

An early visualisation of an HS2 high-speed train in the UK. Credit: High Speed Two Ltd. UK’s HS2 is inviting small and medium-sized technology firms to submit proposals aimed at lowering costs and ...