Trans-Pennine troubles

 

When the almost universally slated Integrated Rail Plan was finally published last November, unceremoniously reneging on over a decade of Government commitments and promises, there was, as I suspected, far less concern about the curtailment of HS2 north of East Midlands Parkway than the ‘Trans-Pennine Downgrade’ of all of Northern Powerhouse Rail in Yorkshire.

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