UK mega project Northern Powerhouse Rail back on track?
Dantzic Street Manchester signalling works
A project to connect major cities in the north of England with a dedicated high-speed railway, vastly increasing capacity for freight and passenger traffic, could be back on the agenda, but only if members of the Conservative Party vote for the right leader. That is the intriguing – or preposterous – state of affairs, depending on your political point of view. One of the two final candidates to take over from deposed prime minister Boris Johnson has put their weight behind reviving the project to build a brand new line connecting Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and Hull.
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Upgrading, for a timely infrastructure, simply has to be undertaken!
(By safe allowed 70 kip axial load, complete with new, safe electrification, thus safely for high quality, On Time arrivals etc. upgradings, quickly will pay, as adding to capacity and utilisation of existing, the now needed..)
Regrettably, currently without any evidence of such, BJ has to be understood…
Alternatively, however, with evidence, for as well timely basics, as for resilency…, then both…