Tag: Network Rail
Lord Berkeley is chairman of the Rail Freight Group in the UK, a board member of the European Rail Freight...
Osborne boots HS2 links to Manchester, Leeds & East Midlands into long grass.
Today the Government will announce they will submit legislation to Parliament to build part of Phase 2 of HS2,...
Autumn statement will see cost of HS2 go up, against a backdrop of cuts.
On Wednesday in the Autumn Statement, against a backdrop of cuts to services across the board, the cost of...
People and Papers react to Euston spin
When the Government announced the proposed design for the partial redevelopment of Euston yesterday to fit in HS2, no doubt...
Selling HS2 by the pound
51M looks at the enormous costs of HS2:
It is interesting to look back on a speech given by...
‘Northern Powerhouse more important than HS2’
Writing for Infrastructure Intelligence Dan Lewis, Senior Infrastructure Policy Adviser at the Institute of Directors, has explained why...
Rail Cuts Surely Leave HS2 in Danger of Derailment
This was originally published in the Huffington Post:
The rationale for the Conservative Government continuing to push through HS2, the...
Two former Chancellors link Network Rail cuts to HS2 spending
In the last week, both Lord (Nigel) Lawson and Alistair Darling, two former Chancellors of the Exchequer have reiterated their opposition to HS2, suggesting the cuts to Network Rail projects are as a direct result of spending on HS2.
We’ve not only put together those clips, but added some from when the pair first came out against HS2.
Besides holding the post of Chancellor, Darling had previously been Secretary of State for Transport, and as such he warned back then that if so much money went on HS2, there wouldn’t be the money for the rest of the rail network.
These words from almost two years ago now seem extremely prophetic, given the recent ‘pausing’ of Network Rail projects.
Government ‘forgets’ Network Rail cuts in response to Lords on HS2.
Network Rail Cuts and the HS2 fallout
A selection of TV and radio reports from this week