A second major site next to Piccadilly Train station has been bought by HS2 to facilitate the stations expansion for the high speed rail line. The Square One building on Travis Street has been bought from property developer Bruntwood, following the sal…
HS2 acquired both the sites on behalf of the UK Department for Transport (DfT). Credit: jplenio from Pixabay.
High Speed 2 (HS2 Ltd) in the UK has acquired the second site in Manchester as part of its plans to build the new high speed railway stat…
HS2 has acquired a prominent office building occupied by Network Rail ahead of the construction of Manchester’s new high speed railway station.
The company behind the project, HS2 Ltd, has reached an agreement with property giant Bruntwood to purchase …
An impressive new bridge, carrying tracks over the route of the HS2 project, is going down a song in the West Midlands of England. Rail freight planners will have a headache for a few weeks, as a crossing over their tracks is renewed to allow HS2 train…
This weekend, Saturday 7th and Sunday, 8th May, a new 92-metre-long railway bridge will be installed in Birmingham, and will become the longest single-span railway structure in the West Midlands.
During the weekend, and on further weekends in May, Cros…
Even though construction of High Speed 2 (HS2) is still in its early stages, it has already been the proving ground for numerous innovations.
“We want to leave a legacy for the UK, so we are supporting projects that adopt new technologies or new ways…
The head of the UK accounting regulator is a contender to become chair of the High Speed 2 rail project, raising the prospect of further upheaval at the audit watchdog, which has been left in limbo by ministers’ decision to drop proposed reforms from…
Wales has a fraught relationship with its train services.Whether it’s long delays, cancellations, or journeys that are standing-room-only, most of us will have silently cursed Transport for Wales – or previously, Arriva Trains Wales – at one time or an…
Mr Johnson made the comments to The Yorkshire Post as West Yorkshire mayor Tracy Brabin hit out at delays to a £100m Government study designed to resolve the issues after the original Eastern leg proposals to bring HS2 to Leeds were scrapped in Novemb…
HS2 has unveiled new designs for the Cubbington, Warwickshire section of the new high-speed line.
Updates made by the designers and construction engineers have led to more environmentally-friendly designs, as less time and materials will be needed for …
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S2 chiefs have sparked fury by preparing to ditch promises to remove construction debris from Euston by rail – meaning an extra 26,000 HGV trips over two years, the Standard can reveal.
Changes to the construction of the high-speed station at Euston…
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The new £96bn high-speed rail line is designed to connect London with Birmingham, Manchester and other major towns and cities in the Midlands and North of England.
The government has said that HS2 will cut Birmingham to London …
HS2 Ltd’s latest board minutes reveal that a different health and safety metric is being applied during the construction of the country’s biggest infrastructure project, compared with standard models used across the industry.
HS2 Ltd claims its method …
Fears arose that the controversial high-speed HS2 network could end the city’s status on the current inter-city West Coast Mainline between London and Scotland.
City councillors are due for an update on Lancaster train services at the next full cou…