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23.11 - 02:43
Boris Johnson’s rail plan: what’s in it and what was promised
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Ministers say the £96bn integrated rail plan published on Thursday will deliver improvements quicker than original plans for the HS2 eastern leg and Northern Powerhouse Rail.
In a foreword to the plan, the prime minister, Boris Johnson, said it been “clear that the plans – first drawn up 11 years ago – had to change”, while Covid had “altered some of the assumptions on which these schemes were designed”.
But critics in the north and Midlands say it is a “rail betrayal” and a watered down version of what was promised.
These are the key changes:
The plan: The high-speed line heading north-west will be built but the eastern leg from Birmingham to Sheffield and Leeds has been scrapped beyond the east Midlands. A brand new hub station at Toton,
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