The cost of the notorious HS2 “bat tunnel” has soared to £125m, The i Paper can reveal. Official estimates, obtained under a Freedom of Information request, suggest it will now cost around £25m more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A giant 1,600-tonne machine called Madeleine that will bore a tunnel taking HS2 trains into central London has been switched on.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. View inside HS2's Chiltern tunnel. (High Speed Two (HS2) Limited.) HS2, the UK's High Speed 2 project developer, has finished the ...

Construction has finished on HS2's longest tunnel, which includes extensions with ventilation holes carved out to prevent sonic booms. Trains travelling at 200mph will take only three minutes to go ...

Construction on the HS2 tunnels from west London to Euston station will start “fairly soon”, the rail minister has said. Lord Hendy of Richmond stressed the Government had “cracked” how to press ahead ...