The budget has been increased to £11.5bn
He added: “This is the single biggest investment any government has ever made in Britain’s railways. It’s right up there and probably beyond what the Victorians were doing.”
The Department of Transport has accepted the line has reached full capacity and less than 40 per cent of trains ran on time in 2019. “We thought was expensive, time-consuming in terms of opening and ultimately really not very much faster.”Powerhouse Rail would be scaled back, as part of the £96bn Integrated Rail Plan.
But the Government, which decided to take charge of the project in November, instead opted to spend £17.2bn on building a line between Warrington and Marsden and upgrade the Transpennine Route.
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