Midland Mainline electrification is now in the even longer grass. This week the Government ‘announced’ a £13 billion blueprint for the Northern Powerhouse, which as you might...
HS2 and putting a price on support First published by 51M: Leeds has followed Sheffield and Birmingham in seeking more finance for the high speed line. The sequence...
High Speed Rail – fading from the North In yesterday’s Budget Speech, one thing conspicuous by its absence was any comment on railways, apart from a passing...
YouGov poll: Northerners most likely to oppose HS2. The latest polling on HS2, conducted by YouGov for the Sunday Times, has shown net opposition to the project...
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...
HS2 sceptic appointed to help deliver ‘Northern Powerhouse’ vision. Jim O’Neill, former chief economist at Goldman Sachs and Chair of the City Growth Commission has been appointed as...
Osborne and the Northern Powerhouse Later today, George Osborne will be making a speech about the Northen Powerhouse in Manchester. These ideas are widely...
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...
HS3: Still no plan, no route and no timescale, but a £65bn budget. As expected, proposals for HS3 which have been announced today, seem to have taken the most-cost options, with the...
Ahead of the HS2/HS3 announcement On Monday, flanked by David Cameron and George Osborne, Sir David Higgins will attempt to restate the case for...