The head of the body representing Britain’s rail freight industry has dismissed ministers’ claims that HS2 will free capacity on the railways, warning that it will in fact lead to a “capacity crunch” ...

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The construction of a major tunnel on the HS2 line has taken a major step forward. The Chipping Warden tunnel in Northamptonshire will take high speed trains underground for 1.55 miles (2.5km). A ...

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A DIRECTOR of a Cannock-based materials handling and logistics company has urged the Government not to spend millions on the HS2 high-speed rail project but to invest the money into infrastructure ...

The development of Canadian National Railway’s (CN) $4.9bn new freight line and terminal handling facility for the mining industry in northern Quebec promises to be one of the largest rail ...

Supply to the Northern Powerhouse was interrupted this week when long-term aspirations and plans collided with reality as one big transport project - HS2 - was replaced with a multitude of smaller ...

The UK’s controversial high-speed rail project is scheduled for completion by 2040, but will it be delivered on time? In a reader survey run on Railway Technology this February, 53% of readers said ...

The shipment arrived at the rail firm's Washwood Heath site and signals the start of a scheme to take up to 1.5 million lorries off the road. Around 150,000 freight trains will deliver 10 million tons ...