Understand Derailed: The Story of HS2 Episodes Available now
10. The Bear Trap
10/10 Kate asks: What next for HS2?
9. You Can Do One
9/10 Rishi Sunak is faced with the decision of what to do about HS2's future.
8. Help I鈥檓 Under a Digger
8/10 HS2 begins building, and environmental protestors make their presence felt
7. Gold Plated
7/10 HS2's contracts with major firms become a new focus for critics.
6. The Only Friend that Mattered
6/10 As HS2 faces fresh threats, a new prime minister steps in.
5. Worry About the Detail Later
5/10 Dissent grows within HS2 itself.
4. Well Done Geoffrey
4/10 Costs mount as compromises with protesting locals are struck
3. That can鈥檛 be right
3/10 Protest groups begin to organise as the line's route is announced.
2. Mutually assured exaggeration
2/10 HS2 makes its case to ministers, but fault lines rapidly emerge.
1. The Railwayman
1/10 HS2's story begins with a blank piece of paper.
