Transport secretary Heidi Alexander says HS2 should be the match of Japan’s Shinkansen network, which started to be developed ...

HS2 Ltd has lost a case in the Court of Appeal, which has ruled that it extended Bromford tunnel in Birmingham without ...

MPs have cast doubt on the plans for Northern Powerhouse Rail, saying they echo the same failures seen in HS2. The Public ...

The National Audit Office has warned that the cost of the ‘reset’ of the remaining section of HS2 will be about £153 million.

Warnings of disruption to train services because of very high temperatures have spread to north west England.

Rail passengers are being urged not to travel, particularly in southern England or the Midlands, as temperatures threaten to ...

Red and amber warnings of extreme heat are still in force, particularly in south east England, and there is also a risk of ...

Cambridge South station will be officially opened today, after trains began calling yesterday. The project is the university city’s third station, after Cambridge North was opened nine years ago. That ...

The train from Corby which ran into the back of a stationary train south of Bedford, killing the driver and injuring more ...

The government will announce today that some £15 million from private sources is to be invested in the Barking Eurohub, so that regular freight trains can start running through the Channel Tunnel ...

The introduction of summer timetables on National Rail in involves significant changes to train services, many of which are new or improved. Southeastern is restoring peak hour services to London ...

Plans to reopen the former Midland Railway main line to Manchester have taken a step forward with the submission of the Peaks and Dales Line Feasibility Study to the Department for Transport. The line ...