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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ross Lydall

HS2 London to Birmingham cost balloons to £68billion with no open date set for Euston, report reveals

The first leg of the HS2 high-speed rail link between Birmingham and London could be finished in six years - but the Government has no idea when it will reach Euston, a parliamentary report revealed on Wednesday.

The Commons public accounts committee said HS2 chiefs were “aiming for 2030” to complete the first part of the line, between new stations at Birmingham Curzon Street and Old Oak Common in north-west London.

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