After years of setbacks, controversy and spiralling costs, phase two of the long-awaited HS2 rail project appears to be under threat. The Independent has exclusively revealed that prime minister Rishi ...

The High Speed 2 rail project intended to connect the North of England with the Midlands and London has been scrapped north of Birmingham. Rishi Sunak made the announcement in his first speech as ...

The new HS2 Euston station will have six platforms, the government has confirmed. After years of uncertainty over the faith of the HS2 project in London, its extension from Old Oak Common to Euston ...

When Britain cut back a planned high-speed rail line, some residents on the route were pleased. They’re less delighted with what happened next. By Stephen Castle Reporting from Whitmore, England, near ...

Despite much soul-searching over UK’s inability to build infrastructure, two sections of HS2 under Chilterns are being hailed for their engineering Seventy metres down, in deep incognito beneath a ...

First of two 1,600-tonne boring machines drilling the 4.5 miles from Old Oak Common station switched on in London Ministers have pledged that a redeveloped Euston HS2 station will be big enough to ...