New 80km rail link recommended to replace HS2 Northern Leg

New Midlands-North West rail link would be ‘game changer for regional growth’

In October last year, then-prime minister Rishi Sunak cancelled a plan to extend HS2 between the West Midlands and Manchester amid spiralling costs.

Plan unveiled for new slower, cheaper rail line as alternative to axed HS2 route

Rail users are being told they may be advised not to travel, following advice from the government finance watchdog after the axing of the northern leg of HS2

Rail users face 'don't travel' message after axing of HS2 watchdog warns

London Northwestern Railway wants to extend its existing services, which run between the capital and Crewe, to Manchester Victoria via the West Midlands.

Plans for new train services between Manchester and London unveiled

Mayor Steve Rotheram has written to PM condemning any plans to scrap HS2

Scrapping HS2 will 'hold back' North for generations, Steve Rotheram claims

Vaughan Gething said: "What's odd about HS2 is that was designated as an England and Wales project, despite none of it coming to Wales."

HS2: 'Always been a fiction' it would benefit Wales, says Welsh Economy Minister

Construction work on HS2, and a worker's HS2 jacket

HS2 has been a controversial project since plans emerged in 2009.

HS2: What's happened on the London-Birmingham-Manchester leg so far?

More than one mile of a branch line in Buckinghamshire between Aylesbury and Princes Risborough is being realigned.

HS2 says construction work is bringing ‘real benefits to passengers today’

Burnham claimed while the region was moving forward on buses, transport was going backwards nationally due to speculation about the high-profile HS2 project.

Andy Burnham hits out at HS2 uncertainty

A £50 million project to make concrete segments that will be used to build the HS2 tunnels in London has started in Teesside.

100 jobs created as production of concrete slabs for HS2 tunnels starts

The controversial HS2 rail project is making "great progress" according to Transport Secretary, Mark Harper, as it reaches the halfway point in construction.

HS2 'on time and on budget' as Transport Secretary visits Curzon Street

Members of the public walk past signs surrounding the construction site for the London Euston HS2 terminal, where work started six years ago with more than £1 billion already spent. A huge area to the west and northwest of the existing mainline station has been cleared to make space for the high-speed railway, and many properties have been bought. Soaring inflation means the redeveloped Euston station may not open until 2038 and could be axed completely with trains instead stopping at a new hub at Old Oak Common in west London's suburbs. Picture date: Friday January 27, 2023

The high-speed rail project has faced delays due to cost-cutting measures. 

HS2 high-speed rail line may not reach central London until 2040s 

The Government is expected to announce that sections of the high speed rail line will be delayed to save money.

HS2 delays 'betrayal of the Midlands' says council leader

A budget of £55.7 billion for the whole of HS2 was set in 2015.

HS2 rail project could be further delayed as inflation pushes up costs

Chief executive Mark Thurston said a series of milestones were reached during the past 12 months.

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