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HS2 already billions over budget with work 'just over halfway done', says rail boss

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Liverpool John Lennon Airport has been named the best airport in the UK - despite being significantly smaller than some of its southern rivals such as Heathrow and Gatwick

Thursday, 10 July 2025

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  • Calling All Stations with Christian Wolmar, Episode 17, Season 3We have two great interviews in this episode.  Christian visits the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire, UK, and hears from Tom Ingall about the "Reunification" project for this leading heritage operator.  Christian then talks to Caroline Seton about London's Forest e-bike hiring and sharing company and its hopes to expand across the capital.

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  • How HS2 squandered billions to become a national embarrassmentHS2 will provide more track, more trains, more seats and faster journeys to improve performance and reliability across Britain's rail network. So says the hitherto dysfunctional organisation that has squandered billions of pounds of taxpayers cash with precious little to show for it.

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  • Train naming honours railway innovator A Great Western Railway Intercity Express has been named for Cyril Bleasdale. He was the first director of InterCity in the early 1980s and then moved on after his retirement from British Rail to help found the company which bought the BR staff newspaper Railnews. His name was unveiled on platform 8 at London Paddington by his wife Katy.

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