Off The Rails: The Inside Story of HS2

The first major account of HS2 – and how it went so wrong

‘A jaunty account of a monumental cock-up. Makes the unbelievable readable.’ Sir Michael Palin


‘High-Speed 2’ was to be the crown jewel of British rail. The first intercity railway built north of London in over a century, it would connect London with Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, bridging the North–South divide and propelling Britain’s infrastructure into the twenty-first century.

Dogged by mismanagement, overspending and incomp...