Some recent news items

Daily Mail: Costs of ‘vanity’ rail project HS2 could hit £90bn: Report urges Theresa May to ditch the scheme

City AM: HS2 should be abandoned, says The TaxPayers’ Alliance – City A.M.

The Star: New anti-HS2 groups to be created to battle revised route

BBC: Proposed changes to HS2 rail’s West Yorkshire route put to public 

Birmingham Post: MPs barred from taking part in HS2 inquiry

Herald Scotland: New Glasgow city centre railway station needed for extra-long HS2 trains, report warns”

Doncaster Free Press: Residents speak out over ‘nonsense’ HS2 route plans for Doncast

Get Bucks: HS2 will ‘severely damage’ tourism in Great Missenden, campaigners say

Doncaster Free Press : Former Labour Leader Ed Miliband calls for HS2 route through Doncaster housing estate to be axed

Northanmpton Chronicle: Northamptonshire MP Leadsom barred from taking part in HS2 Inquiry

Yorkshire Post: YP Comment: Clarity needed over HS2 plans – Work to do to convince public

Mail: Bill for Britain’s high speed rail link advisers is £180MILLION despite not a single piece of track being laid

Guardian: HS2 and the garden bridge are vanity projects – it’s not too late to scrap both

Rotherham Business News: News: Economic analysis needed on HS2 route change

Yorkshire Post: Minister urged to look at case for South Yorkshire HS2 station close to M18

Rotherham advertiser: MP urges HS2 to reconsider planned route

The Times: HS2 and army reserve plan on list of projects at risk

Yorkshire Post: Mayor’s anger at “eleventh hour” changes to high speed rail route

Mail: Multimillion pound housing estate could be BULLDOZED leaving 100 families homeless as proposed changes to route of £55billion HS2 line cuts straight through the centre

Doncaster Free Press: Doncaster mayor in talks with Government over concerns about ‘shock’ HS2 switch

Evening Standard: HS2 Sheffield station scrapped in bid to trim £1 billion from budget

Express & Star: HS2: MP Bill Cash urges Theresa May to ditch ‘disaster’ plans

Transport Network: ‘Golden age of rail’ under threat, top official warns

City AM: Why peers must press for a rethink on HS2 into Euston

Rail Technology Magazine: HS2 works to cause ‘difficult period’ for rail network – Frobisher

Telegraph: HS2 rail project could be delayed by a year due to ‘financial strain’, Whitehall spending watchdog warns

BBC: HS2 has unrealistic timetable, says National Audit Office

Farming UK: Farmers near HS2 train project urged to apply for compensation

Ham and High: Catholic school to be re-born to avoid HS2 route

Christian Wolmar: Small can be beautiful for the railways

Rail Technology Magazine: HS2 accused of not listening to Camden residents over ‘paltry’ reduction in bridge height

Guardian: We should look beyond economics and open our eyes to beauty