Transport and Logistics Network
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7 October 2023
Two miles from my home, HS2 has carved a scar across the landscape, across which trains might eventually take passengers between London and Birmingham more slowly than they do today.
What’s surprising is that, despite a loc…
Labour will not undo Rishi Sunak’s decision to scrap HS2, as the party will work with what inherits at the next election, “not the one we wished we did” as top shadow cabinet minister has said.
In an exclusive interview with The Yorkshire Post ahead o…
Tory ministers have invited American rail bosses to visit Britain next week to learn lessons from the botched HS2 project.
Executives from California High Speed Rail will arrive on Wednesday for a two-day trip organised by Kemi Badenoch[1]’s Department…
Rail Minister Huw Merriman has denied claims the Government’s new Network North plan is “a fairytale” and said he is keen to “get on and deliver” the projects which have been promised.
It comes after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak decided to scrap the sec…
Sly speed railway…
To compensate for axing the Manchester leg of HS2, Rishi Sunak announced the £36billion savings would be used to fund local infrastructure projects[1].
It has now emerged that many of these schemes are no more likely to be built th…
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The way to sell your car in Yorkshire – top tips to self for a good price. Submitted pic
Motorists across all of Yorkshire[1] can tick ‘sell my car[2]’ off their …
Sir Keir Starmer would not build the second phase of HS2[1] if he wins the next general election.On Thursday, the Labour leader said he would stick to Rishi Sunak’s plan to use the savings made by scrapping part of the high-speed rail project to f…
The government has promised, for the umpteenth time in four decades, to dual the A1 between Morpeth and Ellingham – this time from part of the £36bn savings from scrapping high-speed rail (HS2) between Birmingham and Manchester.
It has also said it wil…
The Transpennine Express service was operating between Huddersfield and Leeds when the fire broke out (Photo: UGC)The train, a Class 185 Desiro diesel, had left Huddersfield just before 7am and the engine fault was reported as it arrived at platform 13…
UK prime minister Rishi Sunak has confirmed he is cancelling phase two of the long-standing high-speed rail network project, High Speed 2 (HS2). This comes two years after the government scrapped[1] the eastern Leeds branch of the project.
In a speech[…