{"id":54938,"date":"2021-11-18T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-18T14:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/heres-everything-we-know-about-hs2-the-new-high-speed-railway\/"},"modified":"2021-11-18T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2021-11-18T14:20:07","slug":"heres-everything-we-know-about-hs2-the-new-high-speed-railway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/heres-everything-we-know-about-hs2-the-new-high-speed-railway\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s everything we know about HS2 \u2013 the new high speed railway"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The innovative rail improvement plan, HS2, is expected transform the future of travel. <\/p>\n
HS2<\/a> will offer faster journeys across the country, emitting 17 times less carbon than the equivalent domestic flight and seven times less carbon than the equivalent car journey. <\/p>\n While impressive, the government have been accused of a \u201cbetrayal of trust\u201d for scaling back railway plans for the north in a bid to cut costs. <\/p>\n For example, the high-speed line was due to be extended from the West Midlands to Leeds. This would have cut journey times between London and Leeds to one hour and 21 minutes.<\/p>\n But HS2 will now only be built as far as a new East Midlands Parkway station, around six miles south-west of Nottingham. That means London-Leeds journey times will be one hour and 53 minutes, some 32 minutes longer than planned.<\/p>\n