Chancellor Rachel Reeves says government funding will be provided for the project to link to Euston.
The government is "committing the funding required" to begin tunnelling work to bring HS2 to London Euston station, Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced.
Major HS2 construction work at a site alongside the existing Euston station has been halted since the previous March due to funding doubts. Ms Reeves said: "We are committing the funding required to begin tunnelling work to London Euston station.The Commons Public Accounts Committee issued a report in February stating it was "highly sceptical" that the Department for Transport would be able to attract private investment on "the scale and speed required" to make extending HS2 to Euston "a success".HS2 was originally meant to connect London with Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.
The new plan is for it to be a high-speed link between Birmingham and London, with a lot of work having already been completed on this section.The section of the HS2 railway between Parkway and Hampstead Road in Camden is referred to as the Euston Approaches, and it is designed to connect the line to Euston Station. It is currently a building site.
Other work includes tunnelling and creating a wider and deeper railway called the Euston Throat, which would make room for HS2.Man who threatened to kill a Labour MP spared jail'I'm a patriot, I love my country', Khalife tells court
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