Ouigo off “grands projects”, say French At the weekend, SNCF, the French railway company, opened two new high speed rail lines, with French president Emmanuel...
So, HS2 will be run by a foreign operator. The shortlist of bidders for the combined West Coast Mainline and HS2 franchise has been announced, and whichever bid...
The Race for the Trough Expands as SNCF Join HS2 Franchise Bidders Whilst it may seem rather early for bidders to be announced for the franchise to run HS2 as it’s...
‘Catch up with Europe’??? It’s not somewhere we want to go! Madeleine Wahlberg writes about the Court of Auditors report released in France last week: There has been a flurry of...
Has the TGV regenerated France’s Provincial Cities? This was originally published on HS2 the Regional Impact. By Ian Waddell. HS2 is, at £50bn plus, the largest...
HS2 ditch 18 trains per hour Since first being announced in 2010, HS2 Ltd have always planned to have 18 trains an hour each way...
TGV in trouble – the French chicken comes home to roost This is a guest post by Madeleine Wahlberg. A recent full-page spread in a French newspaper Le Parisien1...
Stop HS2 Evidence to the HS2 Blank Cheque Committee Here is the evidence submitted to the HS2 Committee. Other written evidence can be found via this link. SUMMARY 1. This...
Keeping things quiet This was originally published on Peter’s blog HS2 and the Environment. In my blog Have you heard? (