Plans for a concrete plant to operate beyond its permitted hours to support the construction of HS2 have been approved. Pyford Brook Quarry, near Alrewas, Staffordshire, will now be able open ...

HS2's first deep tunnel, which took 15 months to dig and is under ancient Warwickshire woodland, has reached a construction milestone. Civil engineering works, including concrete finishing works ...

Amid reports of soaring costs caused by inflation, High Speed Two (HS2) railway bosses are reportedly contemplating scaling back the project significantly or scrapping it completely. HS2 ...

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced the scrapping of Phase 2 of the HS2 rail project. The second phase of the high-speed rail was meant to extend Phase 1, the under-construction London-to ...

HS2 chair Sir Jon Thompson told a rail industry conference in November that the conservation project would cost £100mn — a number that swiftly entered public consciousness. Thompson’s ...