HS2 in the news
- beleben: The art and the folly
- Out-Law: HS2 company prepares £7bn worth of civil engineering contracts for tender
- Birmingham Mail: I’ll build Birmingham’s high speed rail line and create Midlands jobs, says Labour leader candidate Liz Kendall
- Guardian: End of the line for Europe’s iconic night trains?
- beleben: Endorsing HS2 is a challenge
- beleben: Killing for the elite
- Rail Engineer: Interoperability – A necessary complication
- Guardian: Is chugging along enough after railway upgrades put on pause?
- Derby Telegraph: HS2: Victorious Derbyshire protest group disbands after HS2 decision
- mix96: Bucks Campaigners Unhappy With HS2 Tunneling Plans
- getBucks: Campaigners angered after being missed out by HS2 select committee
- Express & Star: £7bn HS2 contracts go out to tender even though scheme not yet backed by MPs
- Infrastructure Intelligence: Think about customers not just passengers says HS2 focus group
- Coventry Observer: ‘Blank cheques’ for HS2 high speed rail line, says Warwickshire campaigner
- London Loves Business: HS2 controversy: £7bn contracts out for tender, but project is yet to gain Royal Assent
- Telegraph: Jeremy Corbyn and Labour will put High Speed Rail in ‘jeopardy’
- Lichfield Live: Green Party accuses government of attempting to bulldoze HS2 plans through
- Financial Times: HS2 contracts for £7bn put out to tender despite uncertainty
- mix96: Bucks HS2 Damage ‘More Than Initially Predicted’
- Rugby Observer: HS2 opponents call for reopening of Rugby’s Great Central Railway
- Infrastructure Intelligence: Northern Powerhouse more important than HS2 says IOD infrastructure chief
- beleben: HS2 and London Midland commuting, part five
- beleben: Passenger dispersal at London HS2 stations
- Coventry Telegraph: HS2: Labour leadership trio come out against controversial rail scheme
- Birmingham Mail: Labour leadership candidates could scrap Birmingham’s high speed rail line
- Express & Star: HS2 the ‘wrong answer’ for the West Midlands, says Green leader Natalie Bennett
- Guardian: Andy Burnham vows to renationalise railways
- Country Living: Far more ancient woodlands directly under threat from HS2 than first thought
- Telegraph: HS2 plans could be derailed if Jeremy Corbyn wins Labour leadership
- ITV: Buckinghamshire woodland sites set to be damaged
- Supply Management: £366 million investment required to maximise HS2 supply chain benefits, Midlands report says
- Ilkeston Advertiser: HS2 hub ‘will not be at Breaston’
- Brent & Kilburn Times: Kensal Green Cemetery owners deny claims bodies will be dug up to make way for HS2
- Tamworth Herald: HS2 is ‘failing to protect’ ancient woodland near Tamworth
- Independent: HS2: Significantly more ancient woodland at risk of being destroyed by rail line than previously thought, says new research
- beleben: Half of West Coast Main Line freight paths are wasted (part two)
- Times: HS2 land deal to cost taxpayers an extra £4.4m
- Express & Star: HS2 route changes to cost extra £580m
- DataCentred: Northern Business Leaders Prioritise Faster Internet over HS2/HS3
- beleben: HS2 and its operating surplus
- beleben: HS2 and economic output
- getWestLondon: HS2: Bird’s eye view of route through west London
- Architects Journal: Regeneration chief backs design contest for HS2’s Old Oak station
- Bdaily: HS2: Council leader’s open letter calls for redevelopment of Euston Station
- Kent Online: HS1 success has falsely convinced the government HS2 is a good idea according to IoD chief economist James Sproule
- getBucks: “We’re not giving up on tunnel” say HS2 campaigners
- Advertiser & Review: Video shows fly-through of HS2 line from Brackley to London
- beleben: HS2 and the Rail Usage Drivers Dataset
- Hub-4: Delivering HS2
- Yorkshire Post: Leeds station ‘needs full revamp’ for HS2
- Yorkshire Post: How HS2 can be fast track to future growth
- Burton Mail: Grand plan is key to showing how HS2 will benefit the area
- beleben: Ignite, accelerate, re-tune
- beleben: Extending HS2 to Scotland is “not feasible”
- Express: HS2 is given permission to exhume the dead to build new train line
- Scotsman: Deal on track to bring fast rail link to Scotland
- Mail: Grave of the father of British railways Isambard Kingdom Brunel ‘could be disturbed’ for HS2 London-to-Birmingham rail line
- Independent: From HS2 and fracking to Heathrow’s third runway, meet the new face of protest in the UK
- beleben: Executive chairman of HS2 rail project doesn’t understand speed and capacity
- beleben: The strategic objectives of HS2, part two
- getBucks: Ancient woodland in Bucks could be protected from HS2
- Huffington Post: Rail Cuts Surely Leave HS2 in Danger of Derailment
- Transport Network: Birmingham seeks £3.3bn for HS2 regeneration plans
- Bdaily: HS2: Investigation works begin for replacement homes project in Camden
- Rail Technology Magazine: Network Rail knew in March it might defer CP5 schemes – and told DfT
- Financial Times: Birmingham seeks £3.3bn boost to exploit HS2 rail link
- Camden New Journal: Anger as ‘Baron of Camden’ Andrew Adonis takes new role on HS2 board
- Coventry Telegraph: Controversial HS2 plans threaten 21 ancient woods in Warwickshire
- Express & Star: The HS2 Midlands dream revealed
- Ham&High: Fury as Lord Adonis of Camden takes £950-a-day HS2 job to ‘destroy borough’
- Woodland Trust: HS2 Select Committee recommends tunnel extension that would save three ancient woods
- beleben: GB railfreight chief: ‘Put electrification to one side’
- beleben: HS2 and rail decongestion
- beleben: HS2: ‘thorough, impartial and expert reappraisal’ needed
- beleben: ‘A £60 billion project’
- Sun Nation: Gravy Train Jobs On HS2 Rail Project Cost £1.5m
- Bucks Herald: HS2 select committee rejects calls for tunnel protecting Wendover
- Bucks Free Press: Anti-HS2 campaigners disappointed after Chilterns Long Tunnel is rejected by select committee
- Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust: HS2 tunnel could save ancient woodlands in the Chilterns from irreparable damage
- Architects Journal: HS2 chairman’s ‘depressing’ view of design slammed
- CPRE: Landscape impact of High Speed 2
- Express & Star: We’ve been given no choice on HS2, says campaigner
- Guardian: Counting the cost of HS2 to the north and south (and west)
- getBucks: HS2 Colne Valley viaduct should be redesigned, says select committee
- City A.M.: The HS2 debate is over: It’s time to embrace the benefits
- Birmingham Post: Curzon Street HS2 Masterplan set for green light
- National Trust: National Trust supports a long HS2 tunnel to protect the Chilterns AONB
- Smallholder: HS2 threatens irreplaceble ancient woodland
- BBC: Ex-Network Rail boss says there was no sign of a crisis emerging
- Crewe & Nantwich Guardian: Town council pledge full support to HS2 hub station following Secretary of State visit
- beleben: An unjust division
- Times: Tories persuade Labour peer to climb on board HS2 express
- Times: High-speed rail link puts economy at risk, academics warn
- Guardian: HS2 chief hits out at ‘unjust’ division of rail assets between north and south
- Guardian: Lord Adonis joins board of HS2 project
- BBC: HS2 ‘detrimental’ to East Midlands, says Andrew Bridgen MP
- Kenilworth Weekly News: Ancient Woodlands marked out under HS2 threat
- mix96: HS2 Tunnel Plans Could Damage Water Supply
- beleben: ‘Shared use’ of HS2 tracks
- beleben: Building HS2 ‘without compromise’