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30/10/2019

£1.2m investment to stop moving slope on Settle-Carlisle railway line

Engineers had to dig out waterlogged soil and lay 11, 500 tons of rock to prevent a steep railway cutting, that was edging slowly towards the Settle-Carlisle railway line, spilling onto the tracks. The upgrade at Fothergill, near Kirby Stephen, is being delivered as part of the Great North Rail...

31/10/2017

MP accuses former HS2 chief executive of ‘defrauding taxpayers’

Former HS2 chief executive Simon Kirby has been accused of defrauding taxpayers after the company made £1.7m in unauthorised redundancy payments. Kirby, now chief operating officer of Rolls-Royce, reportedly received an email from the DfT in April 2016 expressly calling on his organisation...

26/01/2017

CH2M European MD appointed new HS2 chief executive

Mark Thurston, European managing director for the global engineering company CH2M, has been appointed as the new chief executive of HS2. The post has been filled in by the former HS2 development director Roy Hill for almost three months since Simon Kirby left HS2 to become Rolls Royce’s...

19/10/2016

Former HS2 development director returns as interim CEO

Roy Hill has been named as the interim chief executive of HS2 Ltd following Simon Kirby’s resignation. Hill is managing director of CH2M Europe, but was previously seconded to HS2 as Phase 1 development director from 2012 to 2014. He will replace Kirby, who announced last month that he is...

12/09/2016

Kirby resigns as HS2 chief executive to join Rolls Royce

HS2 Ltd’s chief executive has announced he is leaving the company just as the high-speed rail project approaches permission to go ahead. Simon Kirby will stand down and take up a place as chief operating officer at Rolls Royce. The HS2 Bill is currently progressing through the House of...

08/04/2016

HS2 agree to form new committee with TUC

HS2 Ltd and the Trade Unions Congress (TUC) have signed an agreement to form a committee in order to maximise the economic and labour benefits of the high-speed railway line. The agreement includes a commitment to form a committee, chaired by the CEO of HS2 and also including HS2’s...

23/03/2016

MPs accuse HS2 of ‘defensive communication and misinformation’

HS2’s communication process with members of the public suffers from “defensive communication and misinformation”, the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) has said. A new PACAC report looks at wider lessons to be learned from the Parliamentary and...

12/10/2015

Amended HS2 works add half a billion pounds to the project’s cost

Changes to HS2 works to accommodate landowner requirements, design alterations and the extension of the Chiltern tunnel are set to add half a billion pounds to the project’s cost. According to figures released today (12 October) and signed off by HS2 Ltd boss Simon Kirby, amendments made...

19/11/2015

Infrastructure commission will secure long-term, cross-party investment, firms say

The new National Infrastructure Commission is a breath of fresh air in an often partisan and short-sighted industry, and could help the supply chain secure investment and recruitment, rail bosses have said. Simon Kirby, head of HS2, said large and strategic infrastructure investment decisions...

17/11/2015

HS2 rolling stock tender to be open to all and ‘fiercely competitive’

The tender process for HS2’s two types of rolling stock will be an open competition, Simon Kirby, chief executive of HS2 Ltd, confirmed at RTM’s recent TransCityRail North event.  He reiterated that the rolling stock for HS2 will comprise both a classic-compatible and a...

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