HS2 high speed railway trains could be made to run slower than initially planned to keep costs down. The government is to ...

The government is looking at ways to make much-delayed London to Birmingham railway line cheaper to deliver.

The head of HS2 Ltd will report by mid-July on how slowing down trains could affect the project's cost and delivery date.

HS2 trains may be slowed down in a bid to stop the £100billion project spiralling further out of control. Ministers are ...

High Speed 2 - known as HS2 - was originally commissioned to run at 360km/h, which would have made its trains the fastest ...

Company will assess whether drop to 186mph from 224mph will save money and help bring forward launch ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Edge, 74, said further uncertainty now shrouds the future of his business after transport minister Heidi Alexander announced ...

HS2 trains could run slower to cut costs on embattled project - The trains were set to have a maximum speed of 360kmph, ...

The mayors of Greater Manchester and the West Midlands have unveiled three options to improve rail connections between the two regions following the scrapping of the planned HS2 link. Andy Burnham and ...

Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander has tasked HS2 chief executive Mark Wild with testing whether stripping out complexity from the railway could save taxpayers billions and bring services into ...

A dairy farmer who won a fight to stop almost half of his land being seized for the scrapped HS2 line from Birmingham and Manchester says the family farm could be under threat again. John Edge, 74, ...