Heidi Alexander told the Commons the railway, estimated in 2011 to cost £32bn, had become "a symbol of this country's decline".

The new cost range and train speed are being announced as a "reset" of the delayed, over-budget and vastly scaled-back project is carried out.

An early visualisation of an HS2 high-speed train in the UK. Credit: High Speed Two Ltd. UK’s HS2 is inviting small and medium-sized technology firms to submit proposals aimed at lowering costs and ...

For more than 15 years, HS2 has divided opinion over one simple question: Is it worth the money? Back in 2012, the cost estimate for first phase of the high speed line between Birmingham and London ...

HS2 trains could run at slower speeds than originally planned as part of a drive to keep the costs of the major rail project down. Reducing the controversial high-speed rail's top speed from its ...

The UK government is set to announce that the completion of the High Speed 2 rail line will be delayed and the cost will rise, faulting the previous Conservative administration for wasting billions of ...

It's increasingly clear that Britain created a Frankenstein’s monster when it embarked on plans for a high-speed rail network linking London and the north. Once brought into being, it couldn't be ...

Readers respond to Simon Jenkins’ article in which he called for the project to be scrapped Simon Jenkins’ argument is shortsighted and ignores the fundamental reason that HS2 was designed in the ...

Review of original train order is meant to prevent service problems north of Birmingham but it may do the opposite Plans to change the size of HS2 trains to maximise capacity are likely to inflate ...