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Understand Derailed: The Story of HS2 Episodes

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  1. 10. The Bear Trap

    10/10 Kate asks: What next for HS2?

  2. 9. You Can Do One

    9/10 Rishi Sunak is faced with the decision of what to do about HS2's future.

  3. 8. Help I’m Under a Digger

    8/10 HS2 begins building, and environmental protestors make their presence felt

  4. 7. Gold Plated

    7/10 HS2's contracts with major firms become a new focus for critics.

  5. 6. The Only Friend that Mattered

    6/10 As HS2 faces fresh threats, a new prime minister steps in.

  6. 5. Worry About the Detail Later

    5/10 Dissent grows within HS2 itself.

  7. 4. Well Done Geoffrey

    4/10 Costs mount as compromises with protesting locals are struck

  8. 3. That can’t be right

    3/10 Protest groups begin to organise as the line's route is announced.

  9. 2. Mutually assured exaggeration

    2/10 HS2 makes its case to ministers, but fault lines rapidly emerge.

  10. 1. The Railwayman

    1/10 HS2's story begins with a blank piece of paper.

  11. Trailer

    1/10 The inside story behind HS2. Has a high speed dream become an almighty mess?