The Government’s investment in HS2 is the most important public investment project in the UK for decades. As such, a key part of the Industrial Strategy should be to take advantage of the opportunities that HS2, and indeed HSR affords. Our response to the Government’s Industrial Strategy Green Paper, which Read more…
High Speed Rail Industry Leaders commissioned Albion Economics to undertake some research to establish the short and medium term employment and training impacts of the HS2 project. The scope of the work focuses on the planning, design and construction phases of the project and provides: an estimate of the number of HS2 Read more…
High Speed Rail Industry Leaders has been speaking, through its membership, to SME’s to gauge how they view the opportunities presented by the development of high speed rail in the UK, and in particular the HS2 project, with the aim of helping to maximise the beneficial effects of HSR development throughout the UK supply chain. The Read more…
The Shaw Report into the future of Network Rail has been published and the findings will be considered by the government with a full response issued later in the year. The key objectives of the report were to explore how to give the railway industry a local/customer focus, establish financial Read more…
High Speed Rail Industry Leaders (HSRIL) recently submitted a response to the National Infrastructure Commission’s consultation, which closed on 17th March 2016. We believe that our collective view is especially relevant to this particular consultation, offering a view on the governance, structure and operation of the commission that would ensure the integrity and Read more…
High Speed Rail Industry Leaders has produced a report outlining how industry will build Britain’s new high speed railway. Poised to Deliver uses examples of lessons learnt and experience built up through projects carried out overseas to show the readiness of industry to deliver the HS2 project on time and within Read more…
Over two years of study on the spatial effects of High Speed Rail has led to culmination of the research, insight and experiences gained throughout the project thus far in the form of the Independent Transport Commission’s report, ‘Ambitions and Opportunities: Understanding the Spatial Effects of High Speed Rail’.
This review of five major rail projects highlights lessons the Department for Transport should apply to current and future rail programmes.
HS2 Ltd’s Chairman David Higgins sets out his vision for the High Speed Two project. Reflecting a growing understanding of the UK’s historic underinvestment in infrastructure and our economic over-reliance on London, ‘Rebalancing Britain’ outlines a more equitable way ahead.
Greengauge 21 is today publishing a new report to help inform work being commissioned to look into ways of improving connections between HS2 and Europe.