Could there be light at the end of the tunnel for HS2? Reports swirling around suggest that the Government is set to give the green signal for the project to terminate at Euston Station rather than slink off at Old Oak Common.
This would represent a welcome case of common sense prevailing. For HS2 to end up as a rump of a line, ferrying passengers between Birmingham and a west London suburb, would be a failure of statecraft.
