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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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.
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.
Journeys between Manchester Piccadilly and London Euston will take just one hour and 11 minutes on HS2, 54 minutes quicker than today's fastest time by rail.
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.
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).
A joint bid from Hitachi and Alstom has won the contract for a long-awaited, $2.6 billion order for the fleet of trains to operate on Britain's new HS2 high speed line. The 54 eight-car electric trainsets, designed to routinely operate at 225 mph, are being described as the “fastest trains in Europe.”
Trenitalia's Paris to Milan route was first introduced in December 2021, serviced by Hitachi Rail's ETR1000. This super high speed train travels at 300km/h - with the ability to go400km/h if not limited by track regulations - making it the fastest train in Europe.
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 high-speed rail will provide the greenest, safest and most efficient form of transport. Although the cost was said to be over 100bn the investment will provide a major boost to business and the economy; the faster rail inks will help reduce the north-south divide and overcome the externalities of car use.
The proposed new station was officially abandoned when the United Kingdom government under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the cancellation of the Manchester leg of High Speed 2 on 4 October 2023.