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Engineers want to set up giant oven at HS2 boring sites to create calcined clay mix for use in foundations and platforms

Transport bosses say HS2 plan to shift huge quantities of freight to rail now impossible

A fiasco like HS2 could never happen here – our fast train network is so popular that no Spanish government would dare give up on it, says journalist María Ramírez

Letter: Tony May lists the problems with the high-speed railway and says that investment should have started in the north

With no apparent irony, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak recently announced he was cancelling HS2 – one of the UK’s largest long-term infrastructure projects – under the 2023 Conservative party conference strapline, “Long-term decisions for a brighter future”. He did so after a week of repeatedly saying he would not be…

Meanwhile Andy Burnham says government must safeguard HS2 land and stop sell-off

Some schemes listed as in line for funds from scrapped northern leg of HS2 were swiftly deleted while others are already complete

Mick Whelan, general secretary of Aslef, accused the Government of wanting to send the rail industry into ‘managed decline’.

Mr Sunak said he does not want to focus on the situation he inherited from previous Conservative administrations but wants to do things ‘differently’.

Watch live as Rishi Sunak holds a ‘PM connect’ event in Nottingham on Monday 9 October.

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