HS2 in the news
- Star: HS2 faces paying compensation to 1,300 homes and businesses in South Yorkshire
- Yorkshire Post: HS2 faces paying compensation to 1,300 homes and businesses in South Yorkshire
- Yorkshire Post: Wrong side of the tracks: The Yorkshire businesses facing ruin because of HS2
- Middlewich Guardian: Anti-HS2 campaigners meet with the TaxPayers’ Alliance to ramp up opposition
- Mail: DAILY BRIEFING: Think-tank wants HS2 rail line axed in favour of experimental Hyperloop system
- Times: Roads and railways will uproot ancient woodland, activists say
- Mail: Battle of Waterloo: Thousands fight to leave London for the Bank Holiday after South Western Railways cancel 75% of services – as 18million holidaymakers jam the roads for last three-day weekend before Christmas
- Pontefract & Castleford Express: HS2 ‘could ruin iron age camp’
- Guardian: August bank holiday disruption expected on UK’s railways and roads
- Mirror: August Bank Holiday weekend travel nightmare with biggest ever rail works and road chaos
- Evening Standard: August Bank Holiday: Rail bosses warn of long weekend delays
- Camden New Journal: Memorial service for dead set to be displaced from burial ground by HS2 railway works
- Ham&High: Memorial held near Euston station at exhumation site for HS2
- Express: HS2 memorial: Ceremony for 60,000 people buried near Euston who will be dug up for railway
- Financial Times: Ministers accused of treating north with contempt
- Guardian: HS2: service held for 60,000 to be exhumed at Euston burial ground
- beleben: Reluctance to state
- Mirror: Q&A: The ‘woeful’ North/South transport divide that is leaving half the country behind
- Yorkshire Post: Why it’s up to the North to sort out rail issues, says Transport Secretary Chris Grayling
- BBC: George Osborne urges ‘HS3’ rail for northern England
- Liverpool Echo: HS2 works set to cause Bank Holiday misery as trains to London cancelled
- Rail Technology Magazine: Osborne: Ministers must ensure HS2 redesigns include HS3 plans
- Guardian: Osborne calls for May to back ‘northern powerhouse’ rail plans
- Herald Scotland: Osborne urges May to press ahead with Liverpool to Hull HS3 rail line to boost “northern powerhouse”
- beleben: Recommendations without evidence
- Star: HS2 offer will just hit the buffers
- beleben: Will high scam
- Greenguage21: HS2 asked to look again at Birmingham Interchange station plans
- Camden New Journal: Just four homes have been sold to Government under HS2 compensation scheme
- Sentinel: Phil Corrigan: HS2 won’t save Stoke-on-Trent…but fairer transport spending might
- Construction News: Week in numbers: HS2 work, cost hikes and fresh losses
- Rotherham Advertiser: HS2 “misleading public” over Mexborough home demolitions
- Kenilworth Weekly News: HS2 wildlife projects in Kenilworth to start this month
- Express & Star: Demolition looms for homes in path of HS2
- Railway-News: Donated Eurostar Delivered to National College for High Speed Rail
- TransportXtra: HS2 prepares to build wildlife corridor
- Staffordshire Newsletter: Video shows human cost of the ‘HS2 Disaster’
- Woodland Trust: Campaigns update: precious parkland, street trees and updates on HS2
- Sentinel: Stone residents call for HS2 to re-site proposed railhead to NEWCASTLE
- Rotherham Advertiser: “HS2 will destroy our village”
- beleben: Congestion or bust
- beleben: On the back of a funding envelope
- Guardian: Labour warns of fallout from scrapping rail electrification
- Christian Wolmar: Why I remain opposed to HS2 – response to Ian Walmsley
- Rail Technology Magazine: Major HS2 construction contracts signed
- Shropshire Star: Concern over HS2 construction traffic near Market Drayton
- Express & Star: HS2 impact: The county showground, golf clubs and schools hit by rail plans
- Express & Star: HS2 leaves nasty taste in the mouth
- beleben: What is the HS2 Wider Programme?
- Times: TaxPayers’ Alliance calls for review of ‘£104bn’ HS2
- Times: Hedgehogs face a new threat . . . HS2
- i news: Chris Grayling accused of ‘hiding’ details of HS2 budgets
- Huffington Post: Government Admits 60,000 Bodies Will Have To Be Exhumed To Make Way For HS2
- Star: Government pledge on Sheffield rail line amid HS2 ‘funding gap’ fear
- Ham&High: Nature reserve spared closure after HS2 firm opposed by Camden Council
- Shropshire Star: 500 HS2 lorries a day in Shropshire village
- beleben: People in orange
- Rail Technology Magazine: Triple electrification cancellation – a misstep from Grayling?
- Rail Technology Magazine: TransPennine electrification and Piccadilly upgrade now also in doubt
- Northwich Guardian: Northwich residents divided on HS2 following final route reveal
- beleben: They seldom deliberate
- beleben: Six hundred thousand pounds per seat
- Express: HS2 to cost £104bn… for a gain of 20mins, says NICK FERRARI
- Telegraph: Dividing line: The winners and losers of HS2
- Mirror: Failing Chris Grayling’s HS2 plans are more Northern powercut than Northern Powerhouse
- Telegraph: We saddle our children with ideas from the past, like HS2, and debts from today. Where is the vision for the future?
- Guardian: Full speed ahead for train builders as minister pulls plug on electrification
- BBC: Confidential Mexborough HS2 rail documents left on train
- ITV: HS2 surveyors apologise after losing documents on train
- Transport Network: Grayling accused of ‘taking people for a ride’ over electrification halt
- Rail Technology Magazine: Was the HS2 route decision for Sheffield correct?
- Guardian: Living in the path of HS2: ‘We don’t matter, do we?’
- beleben: Cuckoo in the nest
- beleben: Taking stock of HS2
- Guardian: Grayling sparks fury by scrapping rail electrification plans
- Rail Technology Magazine: HS2 admits to ‘serious error’ in £1.76m redundancy payments overspend
- Rail Technology Magazine: Grayling throws three major electrification plans out the window
- Telegraph: Government ditches plans to electrify three major railway lines
- Camden New Journal: HS2 residents warned to keep their windows shut… for 17 years
- Wales Online: Rail electrification to Swansea from Cardiff has been ditched by UK Government
- Wales Online: Transport Secretary Chris Grayling explains why rail electrification is not going beyond Cardiff
- Yorkshire Post: Sheffield MP brands rail decision a “betrayal”
- beleben: Main line electrification binned by Chris Grayling to pay for HS2
- Mail: HS2 has already cost us £2.3bn (without any tracks being laid!) Spiralling cost of the project revealed as accounts are slipped out
- Middlewich Guardian: Confirmed HS2 route is ‘devastating’ for Wimboldsley
- Yorkshire Post: YP Comment: Yorkshire’s railway woes must not be forgotten in push for HS2
- National Audit Office: Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General on the 2016-17 Accounts of High Speed Two (HS2) Limited
- City A.M.: HS2 says it made a ‘serious error’ over unapproved redundancy payouts after spending watchdog criticises £1.76m scheme
- beleben: Just a block of grey
- Star: “An utterly pointless, money-guzzling, chaos-causing, havoc-raising white elephant ” Your angry views as Sheffield HS2 route is revealed
- Wakefield Express: Wakefield Council leader Peter Box slams government over HS2
- Yorkshire Post: MPs to press for M18 station to serve HS2 line
- Mail: The street split in two by HS2: Family bought a house just SEVEN DAYS before finding out high speed route will bulldoze their dream home
- Express & Star: HS2: Carillion wins share of tunnel work
- Rail Technology Magazine: Businesses and MPs at odds over HS2 Sheffield route decision
- Nottingham Post: HS2 is coming – so what exactly is happening at Toton?
- Independent: HS2 routes: Where will it go? Will homes be demolished? When will it be finished?
- Mail: The street split in two by HS2: Family bought a house just SEVEN DAYS before finding out high speed route will bulldoze their dream home
- Mail: What a BURN! Pop star Ellie Goulding hits out at plans for HS2 as she takes to Twitter to argue ‘money should be spent elsewhere’
- Mail: Pensioners’ heartbreak after learning HS2 will bulldoze through their ‘dream retirement home’ just five years after they spent £160,000 life savings on it