HS2 in the news
- beleben: East Coast upgrades compromised by HS2
- Construction News: arillion’s HS2 deal: Cable says Grayling must face committee
- beleben: The fearsome costs of HS2
- beleben: The advantages of going loopy
- Railnews: Fears grow over true cost of HS2
- Warrington Guardian: Business park which ‘bypassed’ HS2 threat on market – £18m bids expected
- Middlewich Guardian: HS2 subsidence fears raised after canal embankment collapse
- Third Sector: HS2 rail development forces dogs charity to consider £1m move
- beleben: Leaders in flapdoodle
- Guardian: Meet the man who stands to lose his life’s work to HS2
- Yorkshire Post: Is £300m Yorkshire HS2 parkway station about to hit the buffers?
- Yorkshire Post: HS2 ‘plain wrong’ to keep £300m Yorkshire parkway station report secret
- Christian Wolmar: When will they come clean on HS2 costs?
- Telegraph: High speed rail? Britain’s first link hasn’t worked as planned say critics
- Guardian: Rail electrification plans cancelled purely for cost reasons, says NAO
- Bucks Free Press: HS2 contractors to tunnel through Chilterns next year – but still ‘too early’ to say what effect it will have on traffic
- Yorkshire Post: The Yorkshire Post says: Double standards – the sanctimony of Chris Grayling
- Evening Standard: This royal portrait painter is protesting London tree destruction caused by HS2
- Shropshire Star: Hassle with HS2
- Bucks Herald: Government goes back on HS2 compensation promise
- Telegraph: HS2 land sales help Hansteen to return £145m to shareholders
- City A.M.: Labour peer Tony Berkeley warns costs of first phase of HS2 could double DfT’s budget
- Transport Network: Labour peer suggests HS2 costs double what public is told
- Leamington Spa Courier: Feature: action group highlights impact of HS2 on Cubbington
- Construction News: HS2: Grayling warned over ‘massive’ cost overrun
- beleben: The lack of detail on HS2 costs
- Yorkshire Post: HS2 firm is branded a ‘shambles’ over compensation for residents
- Times: Britain’s ancient subtropical coastline discovered by HS2 workers . . . in north London
- Guardian: HS2 excavations uncover prehistoric subtropical coastline in Ruislip, west London
- beleben: Will ‘HS2 college’ train 1,200 students every year?
- BirminghamLive: Industrial park sold for HS2 line
- Telegraph: West Midlands to unveil £10bn of major construction projects
- Birmingham Mail: Industrial park sold for HS2 line
- beleben: De-scoped ‘hub vision’ is a longer platform
- Middlewich Guardian: HS2 compensation changes ‘undermine chance of fair payment’ for those living along route
- beleben: More photo-opps than answers
- beleben: A whole new level of miserable
- Bucks Herald: HS2 minister announces grant for new woodland hub at Wendover Woods
- Farming UK: Government reneges commitment to make HS2 compulsory purchase ‘fairer’
- CLA: Government Reneges On HS2 Compensation Deal
- Doncaster Free Press: Doncaster MP launches campaign for East to West high speed rail link for Doncaster and the north
- beleben: Resistance or bust
- Express & Star: ‘Significant disruption’ warning over HS2 build
- beleben: All this and weekend trips to Glasgow too
- beleben: Chris goes hyperloopy
- beleben: Lock steps with Chris
- beleben: Lendlease first option
- Leamington Spa Courier: Team behind popular Wolf Run event near Leamington is on the hunt for a new site
- Camden New Journal: HS2 and the great £4bn property bonanza
- Doncaster Free Press: Residents condemn ‘interest free loan’ plans for Doncaster estate facing demolitions over HS2
- Yorkshire Post: Powerhouse call to build fast rail to Northern cities alongside HS2
- Rail Technology Magazine: Northern mayors to launch ‘NPR convention’ to combat HS2 cost-cutting fears
- beleben: The inextricable intertwining
- Huffington Post: Chris Grayling Branded ‘Incompetent’ As Department For Transport Spends £300m Over Budget
- Yorkshire Post: Michael Gove: If we’re building HS2, Brexit needs to pay for broadband for all
- Times: Warning over runaway rail station costs
- Rail: HS2 progress one year after Royal Assent
- Rail Technology Magazine: Array of Thameslink failures mean there are ‘critical tests looming’ for HS2
- Mail: HS2 must learn lessons from Thameslink errors – MPs
- Wakefield Express: HS2 Ltd bought up homes ahead of consultation
- Rail: Study reveals passengers’ HS2 expectations
- City A.M.: HS2 chooses Lendlease to develop “a masterplan” for Euston revamp that could lead to 1,700 new homes
- Rail Technology Magazine: Grayling granted injunction to stop protestors trespassing on HS2 construction site
- Railway Technology: Faster than flying: the high-speed rail routes taking on the air industry
- Mail: Transport Secretary launches legal bid to stop HS2 protest
- Business Green: HS2 rail project awarded BREEAM sustainability standard
- Rail Technology Magazine: Passengers want technology to create ‘personalised experience’ on HS2 trains
- Express: UK’s top 10 quango fat cats all work in rail industry – with highest earner paid £749k
- Star: Fears raised that HS2 minister change could delay compensation agreements in Doncaster
- Express & Star: Staffordshire MPs vow to fight for HS2 compensation
- beleben: Four thousand seats ‘gone missing’
- Camden New Journal: HS2: Trees are immortalised by artist
- Birmingham Mail: HS2 give homeowners three months to leave but residents ‘want better deal’
- beleben: HS2 opening date is ‘an error’
- beleben: The aggression starts here
- London Live: Mural painted in protest of HS2
- Sentinel: The slow and cumbersome HS2 project is more like an oil tanker than a bullet train
- Whitchurch Herald: Cheshire Wildlife Trust calls out HS2 company over planning and compensation
- Worksop Guardian: I have lost all confidence in HS2
- mix96: Bucks MP votes against the second phase of HS2
- beleben: What Patrick understands
- Sentinel: Local MPs call for improvements to ‘devastating’ HS2 plans which ‘will leave an iron scar’ across Staffordshire
- Express & Star: MPs fail in last ditch bid to block HS2
- Cheshire Wildlife Trust: HS2 Phase 2a will destroy the heart of a Defra-funded Nature Improvement Area says Cheshire Wildlife Trust
- Birmingham Mail: Promises that HS2 would take us straight from Birmingham to Paris ‘have been broken’
- mail: How to manage disruption during HS2 work at Euston is `a hell of a question´
- Express: Carillion failure is a signal to stop this HS2 waste of money writes FREDERICK FORSYTH
- Slough & South Bucks Observer: Plans unveiled for HS2 viaduct through Colne Valley Regional Park
- Banbury Guardian: Projects near HS2 route get cash handouts
- Derbyshire Times: Residents raise more concerns over potential impact of HS2 on Derbyshire village
- beleben: (White) elephant in the corner
- Rail Technology Magazine: HS2 releases concept images of new Colne Valley viaduct
- New Civil Engineer: HS2 reveals controversial Colne Valley viaduct
- Express & Star: HS2 unaffected by Carillion collapse – Grayling
- Camden New Journal: It’s soul-destroying, say Bree Louise landlords as HS2 forces pub to close
- Ham&High: Carillion collapse sparks calls to halt controversial HS2 rail scheme
- beleben: Massive expenditure for very little return
- Global RailNews: How will collapse of Carillion impact HS2?
- Independent: Carillion’s collapse threatens HS2 and other major transport infrastructure projects across the UK
- City A.M.: HS2 “not at risk” after Carillion collapses, as JV partners will pick up slack, government says