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London: £7bn Thameslink, £18bn Crossrail, £1bn for a station. The North: A series of broken promises

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The united call from across the north for the Government to finally honour its promises on northern railways is needed - but not new.

This time, the fury revolves around the loss of the HS2 eastern leg between Birmingham and Leeds, as well as fears that Northern Powerhouse Rail's Manchester-Leeds line via Bradford has been removed from the Integrated Rail Plan, to be published on Thursday.

The fight is crucial; the sense of injustice familiar. READ MORE: Choose the North: The government must deliver on railway promises In 2014, George Osborne announced the ‘Northern Hub’, a £1bn infrastructure upgrade in the north of England dubbed the ‘biggest investment in Manchester’s railways since the Victorian era’.

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