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Small-scale rail improvements could better connect the North

Keith Rogers Stockport SK7
02 November 2020
 

In the ongoing discussions about Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) and the future shape of HS2 (LTT 2 and 16 Oct), may I put in a word for smaller schemes?

None of us can know what the after-Covid-19 situation will look like, but a plausible scenario is that funding and demand for rail will both fall.

In the next few years there will be severe pressures on public finance. Even if the currently under-construction portion of HS2 is completed on time and on budget, the priority when decisions come to...

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