HS2 in the news
- beleben: Essentially a London-centric group
- beleben: Javelins between Eurostars
- beleben: Pulling long-distance trains out of the equation
- Rail Technology Magazine: HS2 appoints 45-people independent design panel
- Rail Magazine: HS2 announces Design Panel members
- Rail: HS2 ‘can benefit Scotland’
- Design Week: Designers appointed to influence huge HS2 rail network
- Burton Mail: MP hits out over HS2 home sale claims
- Architects Journal: Not enough regional experts on HS2 design panel, say critics
- NT Places: National Trust reaction to launch of HS2 Design Panel
- Leamington Observer: HS2-threatened tree wins national award
- Telegraph: England’s Tree of the Year, Cubbington pear, to be cut down for HS2
- Guardian: Ancient pear tree in path of HS2 rail route wins Woodland Trust prize
- Mail: Taxpayer buys £2m HS2 mansion from MP – just because he’s getting divorced:
- beleben: Best shape yet
- beleben: Complete and utter ahmadness
- beleben: Complete and utter ahmadness (part two)
- Express & Star: 200 homes planned in Staffordshire next to HS2 line
- KentOnline: Eurostar: Taxpayer £2.3bn out of pocket from sale of train operator says National Audit Office
- Telegraph: Live near HS2? You can appeal for lower council tax
- Western Morning News: HS2 good for British business new survey reveals
- Bdaily: HS2 plans divide the North’s business leaders
- Rail Engineer: HS2 – The story so far
- Transport-Watch: HS2 The peculiar sources of the benefits
- Construction News: Transport secretary talks High Speed 2 investment, spending review and driverless cars at Construction News Summit
- Railway Gazette: State Secretary replaced after damning Fyra report
- getWestLondon: HS2 access road to cut through Hillingdon nature reserve
- Herald Scotland: Civil engineers call for HS2 high speed rail link to be extended to Scotland
- Halifax Courier: Government to set out plan for HS2 Phase Two ‘by end of 2015’
- Mail: HS2 ghost homes paid for by you: Rail firm blows £225m of taxpayers’ money to buy 300 houses by new line… and leaves them empty
- mix96: Flyers Tell Homeowners HS2 Needs Their Land
- beleben: Unusual powers of clairvoyance
- TransportXtra: HS2’s advocates are deaf to all criticism
- beleben: Reputation invested, and rent sought
- Guardian: Tales of hi-vis New York chicanery from Osborne’s favourite author
- Transport-Watch: HS2 The smoking gun
- Leek Post & Times: HS2 set to benefit the Staffordshire Moorlands
- beleben: Increasingly guarded interactions
- Engineer: Hyperloop concept could connect London to Edinburgh in 30 minutes
- beleben: ‘Full use of the eleven’
- beleben: Do you know the cost to San Jose?
- Transport Network: Northern Gateway Partnership launched to exploit HS2 potential
- Evening Standard: Euston Road closure to cost businesses ‘millions’ warn critics
- Rail Technology Magazine: New LEP partnership catalysed by HS2 to capitalise on Northern Powerhouse and Midlands Engine
- Mail: Taxpayers could be left with a £400,000-a-day bill for new trains that cannot run after fears track upgrades will not be completed on time
- Birmingham Post: Birmingham feels the squeeze as South East dominates us all
- Camden: HS2: Rethink folly of Euston urge petitioning Camden Council
- Evening Standard: Euston Road ‘to lose two lanes for six years’ for HS2 work
- Transport-Watch: HS2 Values of time shot to pieces
- Regeneration X: The benefits of High Speed Rail 1 do not cover its costs
- beleben: What were the objectives of HS1?
- getBucks: MP urges people to keep fighting for HS2 tunnel under the Chilterns
- getWestLondon: HS2: Hillingdon Outdoor Activity Centre could move to another borough
- Bucks Free Press: Cheryl Gillan urges residents to keep battling against HS2 at information evening
- NBC News: China Eyes British High-Speed Rail Contract as Latest in Global Push
- Yorkshire Post: Osborne warned over delay risk to HS2 college
- Horticulture Week: HS2 promises to secure plant stock from the UK
- Ham&High: London Zoo issues hedgehog ultimatum to HS2
- Spectator: North London will be boosted by HS2 – but the North won’t be
- beleben: ‘Victorian infrastructure limitations preclude trains longer than 250 metres’
- beleben: Twentieth century infrastructure limitations
- About Manchester: Scrap HS2 says Think Tank’s report
- getWestLondon: Hillingdon Council hit out at HS2 response to Select Committee petitions
- Brent & Kilburn Times: Residents in Kilburn accuse Brent Council of ‘stitching them up’ over HS2 plans
- South China Morning Post: Chinese President Xi Jinping to pledge multi-billion pound investments during state visit to UK to foster Sino-British ties
- Construction Index: Infrastructure costs to rise 25% by 2020
- beleben: Revive to improve
- beleben: Less than best consideration
- Bucks Herald: Tett: Massive housing growth plus HS2 will cause big issues
- Chronicle Live: North East MPs demand rail bosses explain rail electrification chaos
- Derby Telegraph: New council deal could bring HS2 to Derbyshire earlier
- in-Cumbria: North West business leaders call for HS2 to reach Glasgow
- Northamptonshire Telegraph: MPs to quiz train chiefs over Network Rail spending plans
- Railnews: Network Rail crisis to come under spotlight
- Bdaily: What has the SSI steel works closure taught us about inward investment from Asia?
- beleben: HS2 and Birmingham Airport growth
- Times: HS2 billions ‘better spent on old lines’
- Bucks Herald: FARMING MATTERS: M25 and HS2 means massive change for farmers
- Independent: HS2 review delayed over fears team behind project might fail crucial tests
- Rail: HS2? Please look beyond the tracks!
- Birmingham Post: HS2 ‘could attract 750,000 extra passengers’ to Birmingham Airport
- beleben: Keine Aufzeichnung pet
- Camden New Journal: Stand-off as HS2 ban composer from recording public meeting
- Architects Journal: HS2 in talks with Chinese for over a year, says director
- Kenilworth Weekly News: Corbyn stance on HS2 is ‘breath of fresh air’
- Coversation: HS2: the trouble with relying on China for high-speed rail
- Express & Star: Staffordshire properties in limbo over HS2 uncertainty
- 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