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A rail plan that punishes London will be a train wreck for the regions, too
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Those MPs in the north and west of England who believed Boris Johnson when he promised to level up the regions will be drowning their sorrows this weekend. The prime minister’s flagship integrated rail plan was revealed to be not much more than reheated and piecemeal improvements to existing rail lines.
Leeds will be allowed to move ahead with a tram system connecting the city and its nearest neighbours. A couple of electrification projects mothballed in 2017 have secured another lease of life. But otherwise the word “integrated” in the document’s title falls foul of the Trade Descriptions Act.
Northern Powerhouse Rail and the high-speed link from Liverpool to Hull are on the back burner. In favour are much smaller projects that could, just
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