UK ministers are set to order the management of High Speed 2 to explore last-ditch attempts to cut the cost of the rail project, including reducing the speed of its trains. Mark W ...

High Speed 2 - known as HS2 - was originally commissioned to run at 360km/h, which would have made its trains the fastest ...

The British government is considering lowering the maximum speed on HS2 from 360km/h in order to reduce costs and accelerate ...

You might have assumed that HS2 could not possibly become any more of a fiasco. But if so, you were gravely mistaken. Because ...

None of this is to suggest that similar nations operate without constraints, or that Britain should abandon its protection ...

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HS2 has been designed to allow trains to run at up to 360km/h (224mph), but most high-speed trains in this country run at up ...

The taxpayer-funded body behind the High Speed 2 railway line is mounting last-ditch talks to renegotiate the project’s civil ...

Matthew Brooker is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business and infrastructure. Formerly, he was an editor for Bloomberg News and the South China Morning Post. China’s high-speed rail network ...

The UK government has ordered a HS2 overhaul to cut construction time and reduce costs to taxpayers, aiming to deliver faster ...

UK: The launch of a second TBM to drive from Old Oak Common towards Euston offers renewed hope that High Speed 2 will ...

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