HS2 in the news
- beleben: The economic divide between London and other GB cities ‘will widen’
- beleben: Robert Goodwill MP: ‘HS2 will create 25,000 jobs during construction, right across the UK’
- Birmingham Mail: Labour peer behind HS2 to help Chancellor George Osborne with new major projects
- Burton Mail: Spend HS2 cash on re-opening Burton to Leicester line, says MP
- Yorkshire Post: Yorkshire’s HS2 stations must come down to ‘value for money’
- Guardian: London ‘to grow twice as fast as north despite Conservative policies’
- Rail Technology Magazine: Details and deadline of seven HS2 work packages revealed
- Isle of Man Examiner: Labour backs high-speed rail – but on renationalised network
- Express & Star: HS2 college chiefs in donations plea
- Express & Star: HS2 debate: High speed rails or nature trails?
- Yorkshire Post: Tom Richmond: The Northern Powerhouse and how not to run a railway
- Construction News: Act on skills or someone else will do it for you
- Coventry Telegraph: ‘Wider’ M6 and work to get ready for HS2 among £1.8bn Midlands road improvements
- Business Desk: Too much Chinese investment in HS2 could restrict UK growth says expert
- beleben: Don’t mention HS2 to Conference
- Birmingham Mail: We’ll build high speed rail and run it as a public service, says Labour
- Birmingham Post: Labour will press ahead with high-speed rail
- Railway Gazette: Birmingham and Beijing plan joint high speed rail research
- Burohappold: HS2 AND EUSTON – WHEN NOT MAKING A DECISION IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO
- Money Week: Pay for quango bosses is out of control
- Coventry Telegraph: Ancient Warwickshire pear tree facing destruction because of HS2 up for national accolade
- Guardian: Green activists worry about government plans to raise cost of legal challenges
- Huffington Post: George Osborne Praised For Not Mentioning Chinese Human Rights Abuses During China Visit
- mix96: Council Leaders Condemn HS2’s Lack Of Community Engagement
- North-West Evening Mail: South Cumbria boss of HS2 defends £750,000 salary
- Construction Index: Wooing China could jeopardise UK engineering, warns ACE
- Yorkshire Post: The questions you need answering on Osborne and HS2
- This is Money: ALEX BRUMMER: The lost art of great train-making…Why opening up bidding for HS2 railway could help reinvigorate British engineering
- beleben: The wei network, part two
- Bucks Free Press: Huge construction compound which could be home to 250 workers edges closer after Government announcement in China
- Bucks Free Press: MP labels invitation for HS2 investment bids as ‘premature’
- China Daily: China Railway making significant inroads in UK ahead of HS2 bid
- Mail: I’m worth every penny, says fat cat HS2 rail boss who takes home £750,000 a year
- Northampton Chronicle: Campaigners condemn George Osborne’s business pitch to China for HS2 contracts
- getBucks: Changes to HS2’s Additional Provision 2 may have a ‘significant impact’ in Bucks
- getBucks: HS2 snubs Buckinghamshire by not holding community engagements events
- Manchester Evening News: George Osborne urges Chinese investment in HS2 in bid to propel project forward
- Evening Standard: HS2 chief Simon Kirby: £750,000 wage is right because I’m best for job
- Telegraph: George Osborne opens bidding for £11.8bn HS2 contract in China
- Guardian: Steve Bell on George Osborne and HS2 bidding – cartoon
- Guardian: HS2 bidding process to be opened up to Chinese companies
- Times: China urged to buy £12bn ticket to ride on HS2
- Week: HS2: George Osborne opens bidding in China
- Rail: Network Rail predicts new route requirements
- beleben: Fast and frequent dissemblance
- Birmingham Post: HS2 under fire in heated House of Lords debate
- Bucks Herald: ‘HS2 lorries could pose risk to our students’
- Leamington Spa Courier: Cubbington pear tree threatened by HS2 has been shortlisted in national competition
- Sunday Times: Economic Outlook: Infrastructure is a hard sell, even when debt is cheap
- Annie Koh: LRB · Christian Wolmar · What’s the point of HS2? A short history of the future of high speed rail in the UK
- Telegraph: HS2 planners warn trains may terminate in the suburbs as Euston redevelopment is pushed back
- beleben: The platforms and the trains
- Bucks Herald: ‘Sword of Damocles is hanging over businesses’
- Liverpool Echo: Liverpool will not get HS2 link until 2033
- Rail: Scotland determined to gain from HS2 expansion
- Chamberlain Files: Peers slam HS2 ‘vanity project’ and question economic growth forecasts
- beleben: Kings Cross is not a “new station”
- beleben: ‘Virtually every tunnel, viaduct, bridge and embankment’
- Construction News: HS2 redevelopment of London Euston would cause ‘decades of blight’, says MP
- Express & Star: £4m spent on JUST 10 homes from Stafford in preparation for HS2
- Business Travel Buying: Minister insists HS2 will go ahead
- BBC: HS2 Birmingham to London route criticised in House of Lords
- Church in Parliament: “Vanity Of Vanities; All Is Vanity” – Bishop Of Chester Asks Pointed Questions About HS2
- beleben: Spend six and a half billion pounds to ‘make the most of HS2’
- beleben: Shelved is not paused
- BBC: Euston station HS2 plans ‘should be scrapped’
- Infrastructure Intelligence: HS2 Euston alternative team continues fight for station rethink
- mix96: Councillor ‘Furious’ Over AVDC’s HS2 Road Plans
- 102 touch fm: Labour leader Corbyn concerned with HS2 costs
- New Statesman: Revealed: the Tory plan to privatise even more of our railway network
- Telegraph: HS2 will cut platforms at Euston by one third
- Financial Times: Olympian-sized HS2 budget flexes muscles
- beleben: HS2 and rail crowding
- beleben: Sym-pathetic design at Euston
- Mail: High speed line work at London’s Euston station will last SEVEN years longer than planned – and cost £250million more
- Times: Euston disruption to last 16 years
- beleben: HS2 Euston ‘faster for Docklands’, claims Rupert Walker
- Transport Network: New plans released for Euston’s £2bn HS2 terminal
- Construction Index: Plans to build 11 new railway platforms at London’s Euston Station will be submitted to Parliament next week.
- Rail Technology Magazine: ‘Top 10’ overcrowded train services revealed
- Rail Technology Magazine: HS2 redesign plans for Euston ‘leave questions unanswered’ – Camden
- Rail: Scottish HS2 report to be delivered by year’s end
- Financial Times: UK’s most crowded trains revealed
- Ham&High: ‘HS2 will cause a decade of disruption in Camden, with no benefit,’ says council leader
- BBC: Top 10 most crowded trains named
- beleben: The delay that is a “step forward”
- beleben: HS2: we want more disruption, says Camden council
- Architects Journal: Revealed: Grimshaw’s new designs for HS2-ready Euston
- City A.M.: HS2 latest: Government to submit plans about Euston’s high speed redevelopment next week
- Financial Times: HS2 Euston development extended by 7 years
- Rail Technology Magazine: East Midlands hints that HS2 support depends on MML electrification
- Guardian: Revised HS2 plans for Euston extend build time by seven years
- Bdaily: HS2: Camden Council ‘let down’ by Government’s Euston Station plans
- BBC: High Speed 2 works at London Euston to last until 2033
- Lichfield Live: Lichfield and Burntwood Green Party says HS2 delays will be no cause for celebrations
- 24dash.com: New flats for Camden residents affected by HS2
- beleben: Fewer seats on most HS2 trains
- Express: Will HS2 project uncover Britain’s ancient secrets as archeologists prepare to dig deep?
- beleben: ‘A more realistic mode of transportation for the average person’
- BDaily: HS2: Green light for Camden replacement homes