It was originally planned for HS2 to run between London and Birmingham before splitting into two sections to Manchester and Leeds. But two years ago, plans for the eastern leg from Birmingham to ...

Darren Jones, the new shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, said: “The Labour Party would love to see HS2 built, including the branch to Leeds. We’ve long said that.” But he said that no ...

and Meadowhall serving Sheffield and South Yorkshire are the best options for delivering the benefits of HS2 to these regions. However, a number of changes are proposed to the specification for the ...

Eventually political support for the original vision of HS2 crumbled. The music didn’t so much stop for the line as fade out: the leg to Leeds was winnowed away and lost finally in 2021.

Boris Johnson has insisted the Government will investigate ways of extending HS2 to Leeds amid anger over an expected scaling back of railway plans for the North. The Department for Transport (DfT ...

HS2 had broad cross-party support ... cutting the new high speed connection from Birmingham to Leeds. In France, the latest ...

HS2 services reach Leeds and Sheffield via an upgraded line ... David Harby, chair of the Lincolnshire branch of Railfuture, the national rail campaigning group, said the Newark option would ...

The DfT says the journey time by rail between the new HS2 station and Sheffield Midland will be "as little as five minutes". The line will then continue east of Barnsley and Wakefield to reach a ...

Sources in Wakefield say they’re expecting the Birmingham-Leeds leg of HS2 to be scrapped by the government imminently. The high-speed route has been bitterly opposed by local councillors and ...

HS2 had broad cross-party support ... cutting the new high speed connection from Birmingham to Leeds. In France, the latest branch of its high-speed network, the 182km LGV Bretagne – Pays ...