{"id":49175,"date":"2026-03-23T15:30:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/hs2-trains-could-run-slower-than-planned-to-save-money\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T15:30:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T15:30:04","slug":"hs2-trains-could-run-slower-than-planned-to-save-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/hs2-trains-could-run-slower-than-planned-to-save-money\/","title":{"rendered":"HS2 trains could run slower than planned to save money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">This means HS2 trains could not be tested at their intended operating speeds until a bespoke test track, or the railway itself is complete, something DfT sources claim would delay completion of the project by several years and cost billions of pounds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/czex3lj077xo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This means HS2 trains could not be tested at their intended operating speeds until a bespoke test track, or the railway itself is complete, something DfT sources claim would delay completion of the project by several years and cost billions of pounds. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[487,262,3057,114,1128,12641,2416],"class_list":["post-49175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-companies","tag-hs2","tag-money","tag-planned","tag-run","tag-save","tag-slower","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49177,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49175\/revisions\/49177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}