This report into the direct and supply-chain job impacts of the High Speed Rail (HS2) project identifies the number of jobs that will be created in the planning, design, construction, operation, maintenance and renewal of HS2 … Read more › “HS2 – Jobs Analysis”
As the first phase of HS2 entered a new stage, Minister of State for Transport Simon Burns held out the prospect of further extensions to this line beyond the current plans to reach Manchester and Leeds.… Read more › “Rail Minister indicates an appetite to establish a high speed network well beyond the scope of the first phase of HS2.”
Welcoming the two new bills in this week’s Queen’s Speech, Greengauge 21 Director Jim Steer calls for a genuinely national plan to be developed for high-speed rail (HSR).… Read more › “Greengauge21’s response to Queen’s Speech”
On 23rd April 2013, HS2 Ltd proposed a new 9km tunnel for the section of HS2 between North Acton and Northolt. The original plan was to use the largely disused right-of-way of what was once the Great Western Railway’s main … Read more › “With HS2 now to be tunnelled through Ealing, why not use the surface rail corridor to solve a number of other problems?”
