Travelling at up to 225mph on state-of-the-art trains, designed with today's passenger needs in mind, HS2's new rail services will make travel between Crewe and the capital possible in less than an hour.
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Travelling at up to 225mph on state-of-the-art trains, designed with today's passenger needs in mind, HS2's new rail services will make travel between Crewe and the capital possible in less than an hour.
Capable of speeds of up to 225mph (360km/h), the fully electric trains will also run on the existing network to places such as Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and the North West.
The plans for HS2 trains to reach Sheffield mean a trip to or from London will take one hour 27 minutes – the same as under the old HS2 plans, and half an hour faster than now.
HS2 servicesThese will become 'integrated high speed stations', where passengers can catch HS2 trains and access the high speed network to the south. With two services every hour in each direction, journey times between Liverpool and London will be over 40 minutes quicker, at just over one and a half hours.
HS2 does not anticipate being the fastest network once it is up and running. Indeed, Japan has already test-run a new bullet train, powered by electrically charged magnets, which reached an incredible 603km per hour.
HS2 is coming to NottinghamshireThe new 42 mile high-speed line is expected to cut journey times between Birmingham and Nottingham from 74 minutes to 26 minutes, and from London to Nottingham from 92 minutes to 57 minutes (26 minutes faster than under HS2's original plans).
The rolling stock will run at a maximum speed of 360 km/h (225 mph) and will operate on both HS2 track and existing conventional track. The proposed network has been reduced substantially since it was announced in 2013. The line would originally have formed a 'Y' shape, branching north of Birmingham Interchange.
While most Shinkansen currently operate at a maximum of 300 kph (186 mph), the E5 “Bullet Trains” of Japan Railways East (JR East) run at up to 320 kph (200 mph) on the Tohoku Shinkansen, which runs north from Tokyo to Shin-Aomori.
Most of the HS2 route in London will run through newly constructed tunnels. Beginning underground at Euston, the route goes to Old Oak Common, before emerging just south of the Ruislip Golf Course in West Ruislip, and then continuing on the surface.
The arrival of HS2 services into Crewe will allow passengers and visitors to the town to benefit from an unrivalled journey experience onboard Britain's brand-new bullet-style train.
A 10.8km section of new high-speed railway, with a 6.5km section in tunnel beneath Crewe town centre. Two tunnel portals, one to the south of the A500 Shavington Bypass in Crewe and one to the north of Parkers Road in Crewe, connecting the underground and overground sections of the new railway.
The maximum speed currently possible in the UK is 186mph, achieved by Eurostar trains on the HS1 line between London and the Channel Tunnel. The HS1 line is used by Eurostar services and Javelin commuter services from Kent, although the latter have a max speed of 140mph.
The Colne Valley Viaduct is a bridge, under construction as of 2023, which will carry the High Speed 2 railway over the Colne Valley Regional Park and the Grand Union Canal, in Hillingdon, west London.
Britain only has a small section connecting London with the rail tunnel to mainland Europe. In terms of speed, HS2's planned top speed of 225 miles per hour (mph) could make it Europe's fastest rail network.