High-speed rail between Leeds and Sheffield is key to region’s future

Should there be a high-speed rail link between Leeds and Sheffield?

THAT Ministers remain silent about the launch of a new £100m consultants report into how best to improve rail services between Leeds and Sheffield – two of the country’s great cities – is damning in itself about the state of the railways here.

This, for the record, was the ‘fig leaf’ offered to the region last November by the London Government when its £96bn Integrated Rail Plan effectively scrapped the eastern leg of HS2 and downgraded Northern Powerhouse Rail.

HS2: Abandon Leeds, Sheffield and Yorkshire at your peril, Prime Minister – The Yorkshire Post says

High-speed rail between Leeds and Sheffield is key to region’s future – The Yorkshire Post says