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Review of High Speed 2 (HS2) including overview, programme update, schedule, community and environmental impact.

• Updated: 23 March 2021

Transport Minister announces overhaul of how land and property is purchased for High Speed 2 (HS2).

• Updated: 17 November 2020

Roundtable meetings with industry officials will discuss the integrated rail plan.

• Updated: 16 June 2020

HS2 Ltd today marks next step for the project, issuing ‘Notice to proceed’ on Britain’s new railway.

• Updated: 15 April 2020

Preparatory work has almost been completed and now major structures are being put in place on the site of HS2’s new Interchange station - the brand new public transport gateway serving the Midlands, close to Birmingham Inter…

• Updated: 5 March 2020

HS2 Ltd has unveiled updated designs for Old Oak Common Station, as part of the Schedule 17 submission to the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC).

• Updated: 19 February 2020

As highlighted by the Secretary of State, during the Oakervee Review we must strike a sensible balance between keeping the programme on track, and recognising that some works cannot be undone.

• Updated: 2 October 2019

The first major structure to be built at Euston as part of HS2 has received the green light, with the London Borough of Camden approving the design for the high speed rail project’s eye-catching ‘sugar cube’ which will house…

• Updated: 9 August 2019

In a UK-first, the power of immersive augmented reality is being harnessed to train staff who will run the HS2 north London super hub at Old Oak Common.

• Updated: 8 August 2019

New driver-less transport system will connect the Interchange Station with new stops at Birmingham Airport, Birmingham International Station, and the National Exhibition Centre (NEC).

• Updated: 16 July 2019

Buckingham Group has been appointed to complete a package of traffic improvement schemes in Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire, including the completion of Chipping Warden relief road.

• Updated: 17 June 2019

HS2 today released a set of new images showing progress at London Euston where the team this week completed the demolition of the former BHS warehouse on Hampstead Road, close to the new station’s proposed Camden Town entran…

• Updated: 10 June 2019

An overgrown eyesore in North Warwickshire has been transformed into a wildlife haven as part of environmental works by High Speed Two (HS2) Limited.

• Updated: 15 May 2019

HS2 has completed 2 major demolition projects at Euston as work continues to deliver extra capacity and improve journeys for the 44 million passengers who use the station every year.

• Updated: 10 April 2019

HS2 has cleared a key construction site close to the new Old Oak Common ‘super-hub’ station, as work to deliver Phase One of the UK’s new high speed rail project continues to ramp up.

• Updated: 22 March 2019

HS2 Ltd and a Mace/Dragados team today signed contracts to deliver the high speed rail project’s landmark terminus at London Euston.

• Updated: 11 March 2019

Three huge disused yellow container cranes at Willesden, west London have been removed to make way for a major new HS2 Rail Logistics Hub to support the construction of the new high-speed line’s London tunnels.

• Updated: 25 February 2019

Ahead of HS2 Ltd beginning construction of a train maintenance depot in Washwood Heath, demolition of a former railway works in Birmingham is now well underway.

• Updated: 22 February 2019

Leeds-based Soil Engineering Ltd has reported a 35% growth in business in just 4 years thanks to the role it is playing in delivering Britain’s new railway, High Speed Two.

• Updated: 15 February 2019

Construction partners for Euston and Old Oak Common.

• Updated: 6 February 2019