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Article: United Kingdom : Yorkshire cities demand faster rail links to London.
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- September 10, 2009
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Byline: rakshali03
ELEVEN UK cities including Leeds and Sheffield today called for the development of a high-speed rail network that would drastically reduce journey times.
The cities' leaders envisage London-Manchester journey times coming down to one hour 13 minutes and London to Scotland trips taking less than three hours.
The other cities involved are Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne and Nottingham.
The cities' leaders, who have not put forward an actual route for the line, believe that a high-speed network should connect to high-speed lines already in existence in ...