Paul Blomfield, Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Sheffield Central, has today angrily attacked new plans for high speed rail published by the Conservatives which fail to include Sheffield. The Tories plan to develop high-speed rail links between London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, but to by-pass Sheffield. Paul Blomfield said: "High speed rail is going to be vitally important to th...

Despite desperate economic circumstances and cut backs in government spending, the government is pushing ahead with plans to spend untold billions of public money on a "high speed" rail link between London and Birmingham. The fact is that there is already a perfectly good railway link between London and Birmingham - the problem it has is that it has been neglected and allowed to decay for the best...

Under Tory plans, journey time from Birmingham to London would be slashed to just 40 minutes

The transport secretary defends the plan to build a high-speed rail line between London and Birmingham as the route is set to be revealed.

Can I claim this one? In September I commented that: "High-speed rail links between London and the cities of Birmingham (45 mins), Manchester (1hr 15 mins) and Leeds were announced. I will be writing to Theresa Villiers to support this plan but to make the case that high-speed rail should not just be a north-south project but that it could have a hugely positive impact on the London to Bristol

The Adam Smith Institute says the High Speed 2 project, connecting London with Birmingham and eventually Scotland, will cost more than £50bn

Plans to build a new network of 200mph railways is one of the least bad things the government can do, all things being equal. However, the plan involves the following:A high-speed rail hub, with 12 platforms, could be built north of the M4 near Heathrow. A shuttle would carry passengers from the terminals to the hub, which could be linked by a 15-mile tunnel to High Speed One, the Eurostar route f...

There is a "good case" for the government's HS2 high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham and beyond, a committee of MPs says.

Cameron braced for fresh Tory rebellion when final route of £34bn High Speed Rail link between London and Birmingham confirmed.

The Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond, has defended plans to build a high-speed rail link between London and Birmingham.