HS2 was supposed to revolutionize British transportation, but it's turned into Britain's costliest construction disaster. What began as a promising £31 billion vision to connect London with key ...

Barely a day goes by without railways making the headlines in Britain. Industrial unrest, crumbling infrastructure, rising costs, a wildly unpopular government plan to close station ticket offices, ...

Take a flight out of London heading west, and you may just catch a glimpse of a massive construction site snaking its way through the otherwise green English countryside. That is what one day will ...

LONDON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Britain said it would proceed with a plan to build High Speed 2, giving Europe's largest infrastructure project the green light despite criticism that it is billions of ...

HS2 has started construction of the UK’s longest railway bridge. The Colne Valley Viaduct will stretch for 2.1 miles (3.4km), carrying high-speed trains some 33ft (10m) above a series of lakes and ...

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From promising beginnings to present-day disasters, we chart the highs and lows of the UK’s 50-year quest for high-speed rail ...

David Higgins, chief executive, said: “Parts of our national rail network are straining at the seams and in little more than a decade our busiest, most important inter-city rail artery - the west ...

Martha Lane-Fox, one of Britain’s highest profile technology leaders, has called upon the government to scrap the costly High Speed 2 (HS2) rail plan and instead invest in Britain’s broadband network.

The romance of rail travel has seduced many travelers over the years. Sitting in a train as it slips quietly out of a city, along tunnels and viaducts, sneaking glimpses of people’s backyards before ...

LONDON, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Rishi Sunak refused comment on Monday on reports he had decided to delay a key section of Britain's planned HS2 railway - billed as Europe's largest ...