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...collision course with rail users....
...The 350km link, which was agreed in 2016 and due to open in 2026, would have cut travel time between the two cities to about 90 minutes, versus more than four hours by car....
...Instead a new rail link should run for 70 miles from Handsacre, north of Birmingham, to High Legh, near Manchester airport, along approximately the same path as the original HS2 proposal but under cheaper...
...The line is the first in a series of high-speed rail projects that are intended to ultimately link central Europe with Ukraine, Moldova and the western Balkans....
...In a statement on Wednesday, rail minister Huw Merriman said HS2’s management had increased the upper estimate for the project to £57bn in 2019 prices....
...Railway lines join supply chains, and link workers to employers. As one of the cleanest modes of transport, a good train network is a boon for the green transition too....
...The future of that contract is now uncertain after the decision to cancel the second phase of the rail link. Before the HS2 order, the most recent for the mainline train fleet was in December 2019....
...Part of its efforts are to put more concerted focus — and investment — into the so-called TEN-T network — a trans-European spider web of roads and rail lines intended to link the continent’s major hubs....
...Writing as a self-confessed user of HS1, the high-speed rail link between Paris and London, Simon Kuper thinks “the UK can do without high-speed trains” (Spectrum, Life & Arts, October 7)....
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...links across the north, rather than more piecemeal investments....
...links) or through direct private investment, or a mix, high-speed rail could yet get as far as the north....
...The long-planned, high-speed east to west route was in part contingent on the rail link tunnelling through Manchester....
...Burnham told the prime minister in a letter that northern England should not be forced to choose between HS2 and the proposed east-west route called Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) that would link Liverpool...
...Mayors in the two cities are expected to be given the option to rework existing plans for improved rail links....
...HS2, the truncated new high-speed link that will now run only between London and Birmingham, illustrates how modern railways differ from a network designed in a bygone era....
...Sunak recently claimed Old Oak Common had “very strong” links to the rest of London via the new Elizabeth Line. Several Conservative officials said Hunt’s view had prevailed....
...Officials were reviewing the impact of Sunak’s announcement on existing plans and contracts for the link between Old Oak Common and Euston, said a person briefed on the matter....
...He also confirmed that he saw the HS2 line to Manchester as less important than improving rail links between northern cities across the Pennines....
...And when simplistic answers to complex questions are inevitably found wanting, the strategy has been either to blame foreign courts, or foreign institutions like the European Commission, or just to rail...
...HS2 was initially envisaged as a high speed rail-link that would hurtle from Edinburgh to London and onwards to Paris and the rest of Europe....
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