Millions of Londoners will be able to reach Birmingham Airport in under an hour once the controversial High Speed 2 line is opened. The line north from Old Oak Common in west London will have a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The cost of building the London-to-Birmingham stretch of the UK’s HS2 high-speed railway has jumped by a fifth ...

Passengers travelling between London to Birmingham have been caught up in major rail disruption - delaying them for hours. A points failure at London Euston station led to a backlog of trains in the ...

The cost of building HS2’s London to Birmingham leg has jumped up to £68 billion, new estimates suggest Documents released by the Department for Transport (DfT) this month show that costs on the ...

The landslip has impacted a crucial section of the West Coast Main Line (Picture: @networkrailWCML/X) The main train route between London Euston and Birmingham has been cut off by a landslip on the ...

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