Connecting the North: look beyond high-speed rail

Nicholas B Taylor, Little Sandhurst, GU47
28 July 2014
 

The Chancellor’s HS3 proposal is not the answer to regeneration of the North, and whether high-speed rail in the usual sense can promote regional development at all is questionable. 

HS3 could provide a link from Manchester to an extension of the Yorkshire end of the ‘Y’ via the North-East to Edinburgh and Glasgow – call it HS5 (HS4 being Great Western). Crossing the Pennines would be costly, but the difficulties of driving a high-speed route  over 200km...

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