Details on new high speed rail line
There are new details about how train journeys across the Pennines could be speeded up. A report commissioned by the Government is recommending a new high speed railway line.
There are new details about how train journeys across the Pennines could be speeded up. A report commissioned by the Government is recommending a new high speed railway line.
The Prime Minister has announced a new rail link which is supposed to bring cities across the North of England closer together but tonight it was claimed it could actually push them further apart.
The so-called High Speed 3 line would cut journey times between Hull and Liverpool - but the line would only be upgraded as far as Leeds and the former Deputy Prime Minister Lord Prescott says it risks creating a new East/West divide. James Webster reports.
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