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New rail line linking Brum to Manchester
Birmingham Mail
|January 14, 2026
GOVERNMENT TO BUILD LINK AFTER HS2 GOING NORTH WAS SCRAPPED
THE government is to build a new railway line between Birmingham and Manchester after the original plan for a high speed line north was scrapped.
The previous plan to extend HS2 between the cities was scrapped by Rishi Sunak’s Conservative government in October 2023 to save money.
The Treasury said it now wants a new Birmingham to Manchester rail line but that it would not be “a reinstatement of HS2”
No timescale was provided on when it would be built.
A new line would ease pressure on the West Coast Main Line.
The Treasury said the new line would not be open until after the completion of Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR), a scheme to boost east-west rail connections across northern England.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the government was “rolling up its sleeves” to deliver NPR.
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