Quote ="easyWire"Why ask the government to spend that much on communities in the North, when those poor first class train commuters desperately* need a separate rail line to get them from Birmingham to London 25 minutes quicker? Shame on you, Wire.
*Well, the two days a week they [imay[/i spend in the office, since work-from-home became flavour of the century.'"
It’s not even 25 minutes.
I read somewhere the estimated time between London and Manchester on HS2 is 8 mins quicker than the current express.