UK high-speed rail HS2 may never reach Leeds
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There are fears that Britain’s high-speed railway project HS2 may never be extended beyond the London – Birmingham link, currently under construction. The extension of the project to reach Leeds may be shelved according to a ministerial planning review. According to British press reports, the project is to concentrate on the extension to Manchester only.
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