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...A new high-speed rail line will now only be built from London to Birmingham, with HS2’s custom-built trains shifting on to existing tracks the rest of the way to the north of England....
...Sunak set out his transport plan as a replacement for the Birmingham to Manchester leg of HS2, after the project was plagued by delays and cost overruns....
...The £57bn rail line is Europe’s largest infrastructure project and has been beset by cutbacks, cost increases and time delays since work started nearly a decade ago....
...Neither of the big UK political parties plans to nationalise the operators and the sector depends on private capital for new facilities, locomotives and other investments....
...David Shirres, a former Network Rail engineer and editor of Rail Engineer magazine, notes that the Birmingham to Crewe section of HS2 that was originally designed to address that capacity problem is already...
...Birmingham-based Solo Rail Solutions, for whom Alstom was a big customer, went into administration last month and Clark said she was aware of two similar collapses in the East Midlands....
...Transports of raw materials between BASF’s factories in Ludwigshafen, Schwarzheide and Antwerp are not affected by the strike as the company has its own locomotives and drivers....
...Instead a new rail link should run for 70 miles from Handsacre, north of Birmingham, to High Legh, near Manchester airport, along approximately the same path as the original HS2 proposal but under cheaper...
...Train companies are technically in charge of making rolling stock orders, but their budgets for these are set by the government....
...Rob Valentine, regional MD for West Midlands at Bruntwood SciTech, a developer and investor, said the company had opened a new £35mn office block this year as the first phase in a 60-hectare Birmingham Innovation...
...The prospect of the arrival of High Speed 2 rail from 2029 is expected to provide a further boost....
...Avanti runs mainline routes between London and big cities including Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool and Glasgow....
...At an estimated cost of up to RM120bn ($25bn), funding is another obstacle for the government, which seeks to pay for the rail line with capital exclusively from private companies....
...The official price tag for the London to Birmingham section of the UK’s HS2 high-speed rail line has jumped by £3bn in just a month, highlighting the continuing issues in containing the cost of the controversial...
...Alstom and its joint venture partner Hitachi in 2021 won a contract worth up to £2.8bn to build 54 trains for the HS2 rail line....
...Avanti West Coast was forced to cancel services from the capital to Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and Scotland for several hours until power was restored mid-afternoon....
...Prime Minister Rishi Sunak argued that it was worth continuing to build the first phase of the line between Birmingham and west London when he axed the northern leg of the project last October....
...John Graham Lough’s 1862 heroising monument to civil engineer George Stephenson, who opened his pioneering locomotive works here in 1823, is just outside....
...Rail manufacturers have expressed fears over a lack of new orders from cash-strapped train companies....
...The government is discussing allowing businesses to run their own leased locomotives on Transnet rail. The third bit of encouraging news was last month’s budget....
...Last year the company offered several trial slots for private companies to operate trains on two container corridors....
...“The government decided and the company decided to let cost-plus contracts where 99 per cent of the financial risk is with the government....
...TGI Fridays — short for Thank Goodness It’s Friday — began in New York in 1965, and opened its first UK restaurant in Birmingham in 1986....
...He cited as his greatest achievements freezing rail and bus fares, putting more police on the streets and giving all primary-age children free school meals....
...Construction of the initial section of HS2 between London and Birmingham is under way....
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