Labour is set to announce a new timeline on HS2 and efforts to save money after years of delays and spiralling costs

Labour is set to announce a new timeline on HS2 and efforts to save money after years of delays and spiralling costs

Heidi Alexander will tell the Commons that delivering the beleaguered high-speed rail project may cost triple the £32.7billion price tag it was originally given in 2011.

Cost could have funded programme to send astronauts around the moon - with money left over

Transport secretary Heidi Alexander is expected to announce the maximum speed of the trains will be 199mph

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Transport secretary Heidi Alexander blames Conservative government for ‘obscene increase in times and costs’

The transport secretary blasted HS2 as a "massively over-specced folly" in an update to parliament on Tuesday.

Details of failings were revealed in a statement to the House of Commons this afternoon, as critics branded the project a 'national embarrassment and 'white elephant'.

Travel Correspondent Simon Calder assesses the latest stage of this disastrous flagship rail project

The new target opening schedule for HS2 is between May 2036 and October 2039

Mark Wild, who was parachuted in to rescue HS2 after doing the same for Crossrail, told MPs today that he was convinced it would not be delayed any further.

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Die Kosten der Hochgeschwindigkeitsbahnstrecke HS2 von London nach Nordengland explodieren: Aus der „weltbesten Eisenbahn“ wurde eine „massiv überdimensionierte Torheit“.