DfT knew Network Rail cuts were inevitable 3 years ago, due to cost of HS2. The Government have chosen the day they announced cutbacks to Network Rail projects to publish two long-awaited...
As Network Rail projects cut, HS2 Ltd report £190m splurge. As what will surely make the pill of the cancellation of Trans-Pennine and Midland Mainline electrification projects more bitter...
Network Rail staff unlikely to be able to afford HS2 tickets. Ever since the original announcement of HS2 in 2010, fundamental assumptions about the project have been undermined by those...
Osborne wants to make HS2 an election issue, as Network Rail prepare cuts. Whilst George Osborne is set to put HS2 on the election agenda today, he is almost certain to keep...
‘Scrap pacers’ promise ignores the reality of delay to the process. Today the Chancellor has been keen today to talk up the fact that he wants to create a ‘Northern...
HS2 Ltd admit – Euston rebuild ‘not a fundable solution’ with ‘no business case’ Following publication of minutes of an emergency meeting of the HS2 Euston Strategic Board, it has been revealed...
Rail projects may not go ahead, as Higgins & Kirby have spent all the money. Whenever Stop HS2 campaigners say the money earmarked for HS2 would be better spent on current infrastructure, the stock...
HS2 would cause “a decade of disruption” for Euston passengers A Freedom of Information request by HS2 Action Alliance reveals how much disruption HS2 would cause to passengers at...
HS2 bosses ‘running their own gravy train’ as jobs for the boys merry-go-round nets new chair £750k Simon Kirby will follow Sir David Higgins in joining HS2 Ltd from Network Rail in June, before taking over...
From the National Infrastructure Plan Ahead of today’s Autumn Budget statement, the Government published the National Infrastructure Plan, 2013. Here is some of what...