How long will HS2 take from Liverpool to London?

HS2 services These 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.



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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.

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High Speed 2 (HS2) is a planned high-speed railway line in England, the first phase of which is under construction in stages and due for completion between 2029 and 2033, depending on approval for later stages.

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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.

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On HS2, there will be 18 trains an hour. Each train will be 400m long, carrying 1,100 people. That's roughly equivalent to three jumbo jets' worth of people. Compare that to the Nozomi line within Japan's famous Sinkansen high speed rail network.

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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.

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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.

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How much will tickets cost? There is likely to be a premium of between 20 and 33 per cent for using the fast service. That would in theory push the cost of a London-Manchester Anytime ticket from £180 to £240 at 2020 prices, which works out at 6p per second.

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How deep is HS2? It will be bored using tunnel boring machines (TBMs) launched from the western portal, near Old Oak Common Station. The tunnel will be 7.2km (4.5 miles) long, and at its deepest point, will run 50m (160ft) below ground.

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We are already committed to using zero carbon electricity to power HS2 trains, which will be some of the quietest and fastest in the world. Reliable, long-distance train travel between the North, the Midlands and the South East will be emission-free.

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The Glacier Express is known as the slowest express train in the world.

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Japan: L0 Series Maglev (374 mph) Although not yet in regular service, this Japanese train, which is currently being developed and tested by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), holds the land speed record for rail vehicles, clocking in at 374 mph.

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The longest UK train journey is Aberdeen to Penzance. Covering 785 miles, this train journey takes about 13 hours and 20 minutes to complete (give or take a few minutes). It has 36 stops and spends about two hours in total waiting for passengers to embark and disembark at each railway station along the way.

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The entirety of the HS2 rail link between London and Birmingham is to be scrapped and replaced with a train of Dacia Sanderos welded together, the government has announced.

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When operational, HS2 will generate sound. This will be both through the movement of trains along the line and from the equipment along the route needed to operate our trains.

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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.

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Even before Britain's run of double-digit inflation from late 2022 to early 2023, the HS2 budget had ballooned. Its 2015 cost of 55.7 billion pounds ($68 billion) reached 98 billion pounds by 2019, and a 2020 review showed that could rise to 106 billion pounds.

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