HS3 Line From Leeds To Manchester Outlined
The Government opens the possibility of a high-speed rail link that could help rebalance the UK economy.

If you look at the HS2 plans at the moment, the 52 for the 50 billion link is designed to go between London and Birmingham as a first stage before creating a Y shape network with lines up to Manchester and Leeds, 2032-33 that should be ready, but you can see the logic of linking Manchester and Leeds together, and that is what the chancellor is talking about, in part it's about trying to reinforce the idea that HS2 is going to happen, so we need to be thinking about the future and even beyond that, it's also about saying the HS2 is designed to benefit not just London and the south east, which obviously have been performing very strongly economically over the past months, but also the great cities in the north of England that he is going to say in the speech, don't punch their way collectively as they might, and this sort of high speed link is designed to ensure that in what is a rather dim distant future that actually happens rather better.