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The Government recently lifted safeguarding from protected land on the former Phase 2b of the HS2 route – which had been due to stretch through Derbyshire – in July. Image shows artist's impression of HS2.

Reform promise to scrap new high-speed rail schemes in government

Commuters walk along a packed platform after a single train arrived during the morning rush hour, at Waterloo Station in London on April 8, 2024, as train drivers strike over pay. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

North missed £140bn of transport investment during last government

Watch: HS2 teams move huge box structure into place under A-road

The UK's top 50 busiest railway stations

London Euston to Manchester Piccadilly: 50 busiest UK railway stations

A packed London Euston station is a familiar sight to regular commuters

I bet it's carnage at Christmas... UK's 50 busiest railways stations

Here is a list of the top 50 most used and least used railway stations in Britain

The UK's top 50 busiest railway stations ranked on passenger numbers

There is a strict process for deciding which roads are put forward for full-scale resurfacing each year - based on the condition of a route and its importance

Roads set to benefit from pothole funding boost from scrapped HS2 cash

Blackpool residents have had their say on what £125m of relocated HS2 money should be used for

Blackpool residents have say on how to spend £121million HS2 cash

Potholes

This is what readers have to say about the state of Lancashire's roads

Blackpool is set to receive £120.8m of relocated HS2 moneY

Residents have their say on what £125m of HS2 money should be used for

A pothole in Green Lane, Whitestake

This is how bad the potholes are on my daily commute in Lancashire

All forms of transport could benefit from the cash bonanza

'Better journeys' promised for Blackpool as part of Lancs 'transport revolution'

Extra transport cash is en route

Blackpool scoops transport windfall from scrapped HS2 cash

Rishi Sunak is expected to reveal how more than £2bn of reallocated HS2 funding will go to local authorities across the North

Blackpool set to get share of more than £2bn of HS2 money

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak hosts a PM Connect event in Accrington, Lancashire (Credit: Christopher Furlong/PA Wire)

Government will continue to invest in towns like Accrington, PM says

Ten years' worth of pothole repair cash has been laid out for Lancashire

Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre get pothole-filling boost from axed HS2 cash
Blackpool has been awarded more than £12m to help tackle potholes on the resort’s roads over the next decade.
Newsroom

Does Lancashire need better bus services?

How Lancashire plans to spend 'unexpected' £7m on the county's bus network

The Northern leg of HS2 has been scrapped by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak

Sunak's scrapping of HS2 to Manchester sparks conversation amongst commuters

More trams?

Blackpool could get 'more trams' paid for by axed HS2 cash

The high speed line was never going to come to Lancashire, but the trains were (image: HS2 Ltd.)

HS2: northern leg to Manchester officially scrapped

Yay or nay to HS2 to Manchester?

HS2: Mancheter leg 'will be axed', according to reports

Rishi Sunak has refused to say whether he's axing the HS2 route from Birmingham to Manchester. Credit: Mark Hall/Getty

Breaking Northern leader hits out at PM’s ‘lies’ over rail projects and HS2

Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images.

Breaking Betrayal of the North: Boris Johnson hits out at PM on HS2

An aerial view of the groundworks construction of the HS2 high speed rail network progresses around the A38 dual-carriageway near Streethay on January 27, 2023 in Lichfield (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Gravy train: £280 million spent on HS2 consultants in years

According to a leaked photograph, the government is said to be possibly planning on scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester HS2 phase in order to cut down on costs. (Credit: PA)

Breaking Labour mayors join forces to urge Sunak not to scrap HS2 Northern link

The Prime Minister is reportedly "alarmed" by the ballooning costs of the HS2 [project amid rumours that his government may be about to announce that the Northern leg of the line will be scrapped. (Credit: Hollie Adams/PA Wire)

Breaking Rishi Sunak 'alarmed' by costs of HS2 project amid Cabinet split

According to a leaked photograp, the government is said to be possibly planning on scrapping the Birmingham to Manchester HS2 phase in order to cut down on costs. (Credit: PA)

Breaking Rishi Sunak refuses to guarantee HS2 will link Manchester and London
According to a leaked photograph published by The Independent, the government could be planning to scrap the northern stretch of HS2 in a bid to cut on costs
Heather Carrick

Sinkhole which has opened up above HS2 work in Buckinghamshire

Sinkhole opens up above a tunnel built for the HS2 high rail line

Construction on sections of the HS2 route have been delayed (Photo by Mark Case/Getty Images)

HS2 needs to be completed to transform north of England

An early representation of what the new HS2 trains could look like.

Part of HS2 to be delayed in bid to cut costs

Migrants crossing the channel

Letters - Thursday, December 2, 2021

Has Lancashire been left out of the big rail plan for the North?

Will Lancashire see any benefits from the government's rail plan for the North?

Poet JB Barrington

Poet JB Barrington to perform at Blackpool venue The Old Electric

Politics

Letters - Tuesday, October 12, 2021

Electric cars

Letters - Monday,August 2, 2021

Minister Andrew Stephenson

Minister urges Lancashire firms to bid for HS2 work

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Letters - Monday, May 10, 2021

The problem-hit HS2 could cost more than £100bn

Business leaders welcome confirmation of HS2 link to Crewe

Network Rail says improvements are needed

Lancashire rail users face disruption on West Coast main line

Blackpool Council wants to protect services provided by Avanti

Campaign backed to protect Blackpool's London rail links

How HS2 could look

North transport group welcomes consultation on phase two of the HS2 rail project

HS2 could create 22,000 jobs, says the Government

Northern Powerhouse chiefs welcome start on £106bn HS2 project

Dame Carolyn Fairburn

'Race against time' to save jobs in the North, says CBI

HS2 must still go ahead, says Transport for the North

'Now is not the time to stop investment in North's railways'

HS2 has been plagued by problems

MPs want an 'open, honest account' of HS2 in future

Passenger trains between Old Oak Common in west London and Birmingham Curzon Street are due to start running between 2029 and 2033 (Photo: PA)

The HS2 project has been given approval to begin construction - here’s where wor...

Andrew Stephenson MP

Lancashire MP announced as minister for HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail

HS2

Letters - Tuesday, February 11, 2020

An image of how HS2 will look

HS2 decision welcomed by Lancashire business and Northern Powerhouse chiefs

HS2 has sparked controversy

Javid 'set to back HS2 despite soaring costs'

Cat Smith and Holly Lynch

MPeas in a pod? Labour politicians mixed up by BBC in Parliament broadcast

Are you donating to help Australia recover from the bush fires?

Letters - January 11, 2020

(Photo: Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

HS2 route map, cost of construction and when the high-speed railway track will b...

There are many that still believe HS2 should still go ahead

Parliament 'seriously misled' over cost of HS2, says report

How HS2 could look. A report says there is no alternative if overcrowding on Northern trains is to be avoided in future.

Powerhouse says there is no alternative to HS2

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