Senior executives in charge of the £45bn Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) project must regularly assess its cost to avoid huge ...

The 2.1-mile Colne Valley viaduct is about a third complete. Photo courtesy of HS2 Ltd. December 28, 2023 With its workforce now peaking at around 30,000, the U.K.'s London-Birmingham 140-mile HS2 ...

Completing the shortened leg of the UK’s HS2 high speed rail link offers taxpayers “very poor value for money,” while problems with the planned London terminus and how the new trains will run on old ...

Earlier this year, the U.K. Dept. for Transport ordered a two-year work pause on the HS2 Euston Station in London. Photo courtesy of HS2 Ltd. October 4, 2023 Having progressively whittled down the ...

In one of the most comprehensive critiques of HS2 since its conception, a report from the left-leaning think tank New Economics Foundation (NEF) calls for the high-speed rail link to be scrapped and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- UK Transport Secretary Louise Haigh launched an independent review of the HS2 high-speed railway line project to ...

The UK government spending watchdog took aim at major infrastructure projects including the HS2 rail link, saying reviving productivity in public services would unlock 10s of billions of pounds a year ...

Looking north across the site for the Birmingham terminus of the new HS2 railway line. Credit: Geof Sheppard via Wikipedia. The UK’s HS2 has officially commenced construction works to build the ...