HS2 in the news
- beleben: Right to be sceptical
- Rail Technology Magazine: University of Leeds to develop £10m high-speed rail centre
- Express & Star: HS2 College opens in West Midlands
- Guardian: Vince Cable accuses Network Rail and HS2 firm of being secretive
- Guardian: New HS2 fears as large crack opens up on land where train line will run
- Times: West Yorkshire coal-mining fissure opens beneath ‘crazy’ HS2 train route
- Independent: Virgin boss partners with Hyperloop One
- Birmingham Mail: Lives of 200 reindeer and Christmas attraction near Lichfield in doubt due to HS2
- Telegraph: London to Edinburgh in 50 minutes: Sir Richard Branson to build ‘revolutionary’ Hyperloop train
- Financial Times: Sir Richard Branson invests in futuristic hyperloop train
- Star: Residents show how they fear HS2 will tear through their Doncaster fields
- Yorkshire Post: Why today’s £300Million HS2 funding announcement means so much
- beleben: Unreason at the core
- Mail: The government ploughs £4.2bn of taxpayers’ money into Britain’s railways, new figures reveal
- getWestLondon: HS2 activists evicted from field after chaining themselves to trees in protest at ‘illegal’ works
- Yorkshire Post: Revealed: £500m plan to remodel Leeds Station into a “world class gateway” at heart of Northern Powerhouse
- Express & Star: 200 reindeer from Blithbury Reindeer Lodge face being culled to make way for HS2 rail line
- Sentinel: Stone councillors speak out against HS2 railhead earmarked for land near Yarnfield
- Shropshire Star: Call to use disused Shropshire rail line for HS2 traffic to save village roads
- Rail Technology Magazine: Griffiths: Future of northern transport hinges on HS2 links with NPR
- Global Railway Review: HS3 is doomed to fail, but not for the reason you think
- South Yorkshire Times: Doncaster campaigners concerns over HS2 compensation
- ITV: Wildlife Trust claims HS2 will impact animal life on route
- Derby Telegraph: ‘Why is Nottingham getting a better HS2 deal than Derby?’
- WireFM: Fears over HS2 impact on Cheshire wildlife
- Transport Network: We’ve been here before
- Guardian: HS2 protester spends night under digger in effort to stop demolition
- Nottingham Post: How HS2 could create 10,000 jobs around new Toton station
- Cheshire Wildlife Trust: HS2 to hit farmland species hard says Cheshire Wildlife Trust
- Yorkshire Post: Philip Hammond pledges £300m for rail links in show of support for Northern Powerhouse
- Telegraph: Hyperloop linking northern cities could be cheaper and better than HS2, says Institute of Directors
- Rail Technology Magazine: Hammond announces £300m for improved northern HS2 connections
- Yorkshire Post: Hammond rail pledge ‘needs to be followed by billions more’
- Public Finance: Hammond pledges £400m for Northern Powerhouse transport links
- beleben: State of the art in 1980s France
- Camden New Journal: HS2 shut my hotel, says owner evicted from 80 year old business
- beleben: Aesthetically challenged overhead
- Northwich Guardian: HS2 will be a disaster
- New Civil Engineer: HS2 to use French overhead line technology
- Northern Echo: Labour ‘on wrong track’ about extending HS2 in the North
- Express & Star: Farm shop and cafe closes to make way for HS2
- Rail Technology Magazine: HS2 slams claim that line ‘won’t work’ without Crossrail 2
- beleben: Lost in the scrum
- Evening Standard: HS2 bosses say scheme will not ‘work properly’ unless Crossrail 2 is built
- Financial Times: HS2 warns it will not ‘work properly’ without Crossrail 2
- Construction News: HS2 denies claims project can’t cope without Crossrail 2
- Yorkshire Post: Grayling interview: “What matters to the passengers is the journey time… not how the train is powered”
- Farmers Weekly: HS2 forces closure of award-winning farm business
- beleben: Keep up to date with HS2 alt-facts
- beleben: Getting Leonie excited
- Rotherham Advertiser: “You will destroy our village for no reason” – Aston residents’ message to HS2 bosses
- Birmingham Mail: Popular family shop and restaurant Packington Moor Farm forced to close after 30 years because of HS2
- Yorkshire Post: ‘How HS2 Sheffield Station saga helped derail devolution hopes’
- Warrington Guardian: MP Helen Jones ‘annoyed’ with Government over HS2 costings
- HuffPost: Chris Grayling Slammed For Allowing HS2 Staff To ‘Waste’ £5m On Train Fares
- beleben: Spending twenty seven million pounds on a tram stop
- Star: Doncaster Shimmer estate to see 16 plots left unbuilt as HS2 spends millions on properties
- Rail Technology Magazine: WMCA confirms £27.5m funding for new HS2 Curzon tram stop
- Nottingham Post: Huge balloon floated at height of HS2 viaduct to remind people about information meeting
- Mirror: HS2 campaigners threaten legal action unless rail route through their Yorkshire village is suspended
- Sentinel: Campaigners: Don’t build HS2 railhead here!
- Express & Star: ‘Affordability’ of HS2 Phase 2 questioned by Government body
- beleben: Gross point blank
- Wakefield Express: Campaigners battle HS2 project
- Bdaily: How Hyperloop technology could transform the Northern Powerhouse from concept to reality
- TransportXtra: Report reveals Government concern over HS2 affordability
- beleben: Inexactitude of additionality
- Rail: HS2 offers thousands of extra seats to Scotland
- Sentinel: Villagers call on HS2 plan for Whitmore and Madeley to be revised – with residents told to have their say
- beleben: May the lord be with you
- Mail: HS2 should be scrapped as it is a ‘waste of money’ says former chancellor Alistair Darling
- Spectator: A civil servant has revealed that HS2 was a political vanity project
- Construction News: HS2 snaps up homes on new Yorkshire housing estate
- New Civil Engineer: Early intervention to smooth HS2’s environmental journey
- Financial Times: Engineering HS2 as a lean internationalist scheme
- Yorkshire Post: HS2 to spend millions buying dozens of empty homes on new Yorkshire housing estate
- beleben: Love of the ribbon
- Rotherham Advertiser: Barron criticises HS2 over “wobbly” data
- Rail Technology Magazine: Maynard: HS2 will not deliver full potential unless east-west links improved
- Rail Technology Magazine: From enmity to eminence: The inevitable journey of infrastructure
- Nottingham Post: Government to ‘look more closely’ at HS2 compensation in Long Eaton
- ITV: West Yorkshire campaigners to raise concerns over HS2 ahead of ‘potential legal challenge’
- Yorkshire Post: Tory MPs threaten to rebel over HS2 train proposals
- Express & Star: Fears Rugeley Power Station redevelopment will be delayed by HS2
- Northern Echo: ‘Sad’ and ‘depressing’ – think-tank unhappy with Middlesbrough MP’s views after he dismisses ‘Hyperloop One’ technology
- GazetteLive: Middlesbrough MP labelled ‘out of touch’ after dismissing Hyperloop travel idea for the North
- CityMetric: How can we judge infrastructure spending?
- beleben: Views for seven minutes
- Yorkshire Post: Vince Cable – Yorkshire is being betrayed by a party of little southerners
- Times: Half of residents hoping to sell a home near HS2 are rejected
- Rotherham Advertiser: Wildlife trust’s worries over HS2 effect on environment
- Derbyshire Times: HS2 ‘will destroy’ two ancient woods in north east Derbyshire
- beleben: HS2 and reduced capacity
- Camden New Journal: No one seems to have looked at the risks to the vulnerable of HS2 evictions
- beleben: Unpause and uncancellation
- New Civil Engineer: Call to ‘ditch outdated HS2 for Hyperloop’
- Times: Bidding opens for construction of emblematic HS2 stations
- Yorkshire Post: London to Leeds in less than 30 minutes? That’s space age talk!
- LondonLive: Memorial service honours people whose remains will be exhumed for HS2 project
- Transport Network: Battle begins for HS2’s £3bn London construction work