UK parliament says HS2 for Manchester remains on the agenda
HS2 Manchester Piccadilly station. A visual of things to come ... perhaps HS2
Will Britain’s high speed railway come to Manchester? There is still a massive cloud over the prospect of HS2 ever reaching the North West of England, but the company set up to deliver the huge project is pressing ahead with preliminary plans.
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Northern Powerhouse Rail is a joke. It needs to be STRAIGHT, that means running thru Manchester Victoria, not via Piccadilly which faces the wrong way. Sort NPR out then HS2 can branch into NPR at Warrington serving Liverpool and Manchester and then running onto the WCML north to Scotland.
Then Liverpool & Manchester can use NPR to the ECML east of the Pennines, run south and then branch onto HS1 to the Continent.
This circuitous HS2 track around Tatton is madness.