Useful online resources

UK Government information

• The Department for Transport HSR website, containing information on high-speed rail proposals and the work of HS2 Limited.
• High Speed Two Ltd: the Government company created to look at the feasibility of, and business case for, a new high speed rail line between London and the West Midlands and to consider the case for high speed rail services linking London, northern England and Scotland.
• The HS2 Exceptional Hardship Scheme.
• DfT’s 2011 – 2015 Business Plan, setting out timescales for the development of High Speed 2.

UK high-speed rail

• High Speed 1: the operator of the UK’s first high-speed line, between London and the Channel Tunnel.
• Eurostar: operator of international high-speed services between London, Paris and Brussels.
• Southeastern’s high-speed services from Kent to London St Pancras.

Studies and research

• Northern Way Issues and Evidence Report about why stakeholders across the North should back the Government’s proposals for a national high speed rail network.
• Network Rail’s New Lines Programme, which examines the strategic business case for new lines to meet future demands for additional rail capacity from passengers and freight users.
• High Speed 2 West Midlands: information and facts on HSR from the West Midlands.
• UIC information on High speed railway lines in the world.
• Atkins 2002-03 High Speed Line study for the Strategic Rail Authority (with 2005 addendum).

For topical debate on transport issues including HSR, visit Transport Debate 2011.