Mentions:
1: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) The cancellation of High Speed 2 phase 2a is an important topic for consideration, as is the transfer - Speech Link
2: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) I fully support the idea in principle and I still think that it is important that high-speed trains are - Speech Link
3: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) means that it is more likely that high-speed services will run through Stoke to Manchester, so it is - Speech Link
4: Wera Hobhouse (LD - Bath) High-speed rail should modernise our railways, connect more of the country and increase capacity. - Speech Link
5: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Initial high speed services will start between 2029 and 2033, and will run between Old Oak Common in - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Lord Snape (Lab - Life peer) That truncated high-speed route will not just directly impact passengers. - Speech Link
2: Lord Birt (XB - Life peer) As we meet today, the UK has 113 kilometres of high-speed rail. - Speech Link
3: Baroness Randerson (LD - Life peer) The nation that invented the railways has proved itself incapable of building a modern high-speed line - Speech Link
4: Lord Liddle (Lab - Life peer) After the Prime Minister’s decision, we are left with a high-speed line with apparently no public funds - Speech Link
Jul. 28 2010
Source Page: Invitation to pre qualify and 'teaser' for the proposed sale of High Speed 1. 13 p.Found: Invitation to pre qualify and 'teaser' for the proposed sale of High Speed 1. 13 p.
Mentions:
1: Lumsden, Douglas (Con - North East Scotland) The trade unions have raised concerns about the class 43 high-speed train rolling stock. - Speech Link
2: None If you are travelling about on Scotland’s railway and you see these little yellow poles about 1m high - Speech Link
3: None Because we changed the operation of the railway—introducing precautionary speed restrictions, for example—we - Speech Link
4: None Critical to our performance on that part of the rail network will be the delivery of our high-speed trains - Speech Link
Found: Speed Rail 2 – an overview (April 2024).
Mentions:
1: None between a junction with Phase 2a of High Speed 2 south of Crewe in Cheshire and a point in the vicinity - Speech Link
2: None between a junction with Phase 2a of High Speed 2 south of Crewe in Cheshire and a point in the vicinity - Speech Link
3: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) between a junction with Phase 2a of High Speed 2 south of Crewe in Cheshire and a point in the vicinity - Speech Link
4: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) south of Millington, which were only required to deliver the now cancelled elements of High Speed 2. - Speech Link
5: Jack Brereton (Con - Stoke-on-Trent South) This would be an important change, given that the line will be a conventional railway, not high speed - Speech Link
Written Evidence Nov. 14 2023
Committee: Transport Committee (Department: Department for Transport)Found: ”, again only designing for what could be practically achieved by a high speed train.
Mentions:
1: Michael Fabricant (Con - Lichfield) At the moment, the line is used only for freight, and I was told four years ago that the cost of upgrading - Speech Link
2: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) I am pleased to tell him that, following our decision to cancel the second phase of High Speed 2, we - Speech Link
3: Rupa Huq (Lab - Ealing Central and Acton) High Speed 2, with its out-of-control costs, is compounding local misery, because it is now set to close - Speech Link
4: Mark Harper (Con - Forest of Dean) We made a commitment to take the money from the cancellation of the second phase of High Speed 2 to make - Speech Link
5: Huw Merriman (Con - Bexhill and Battle) Speed 2 is spent where HS2 would have been delivered. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Dave Doogan (SNP - Angus) Birmingham was the best connected city to London anyway; it now has another railway line, but one that - Speech Link
2: Alan Brown (SNP - Kilmarnock and Loudoun) the time we were assured that there would be a spur up the east coast and a spur up the west coast of high-speed - Speech Link
3: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) In fact, we are on to transport strategy 2, and we have the strategic transport projects review 2, which - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Gavin Newlands (SNP - Paisley and Renfrewshire North) to Manchester and the inability of high-speed rolling stock to tilt on the remaining west coast main - Speech Link
2: Simon Fell (Con - Barrow and Furness) That will take 150 million tonnes of freight off that line every year and is hugely welcome. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Gwynne (Lab - Denton and Reddish) Data from the High-Speed Rail Group suggests that the Government’s fire sale of land on the former Birmingham - Speech Link