Category Archives: HS3

IRP – “Mayor Brabin tells Transport Secretary that rail plan will limit West Yorkshire’s growth for many decades to come”

Posted on December 1, 2021 by admin

[Press release from West Yorkshire Mayor Tracy Brabin, dated 26th November 2021, follows] In a letter to Grant Shapps, West Yorkshire Mayor, Tracy Brabin, says that communities “feel betrayed” by the Government’s Integrated Rail Plan (IRP) and that it is … Continue reading →

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Reaction to the Integrated Rail Plan

Posted on November 30, 2021 by admin

The government’s long-awaited Integrated Rail Plan was finally published on 18th November. In (very brief) summary Most of the eastern leg of HS2 will be cancelled. It will go from Birmingham to the Nottingham area, there will be no continuation … Continue reading →

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The Integrated Rail Plan

Posted on November 29, 2021 by admin

The government’s Integrated Rail Plan for the North and the Midlands was published on 18th November, just 11 days short of the 10th anniversary of the announcement of Transpennine electrification from Manchester to Leeds and York. It contains some things … Continue reading →

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“HS3 should be completed before HS2 reaches Yorkshire, says Railfuture campaign”

Posted on October 30, 2014 by admin

[from the Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 29th October 2014]   Transport campaigners have called for an earlier start to the huge HS3 project to free up slower lines serving Huddersfield stations. Railfuture says work on a high-speed Leeds to Manchester line … Continue reading →

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