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I think NPR's scary price tag cause negative effect too, why not try to advocate step by step? Firstly a new Man-Leeds line, with Leeds to York wired, then to other projects. The opposition are far less in this way i think,
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8836947/liz-truss-suggests-she-could-axe-60billion-hs2-rail-link-to-boost-local-transport/
Seems HS2 will struggle to survive after Liz Truss's axe?
Get it, but even they ordered THIS, the production and testing schedule is tense. ECML'S IEP has been taken 4 years since first time assembled in the UK.....
A question, in the DFT statement, we can get:
For Not to LD and Sheffield to Ld, from May 2020, modern diesel trains will begin to replace aging HSTs. Timetable changes will enable faster journey times from December 2020.
Where to find this so-called modern diesel to replace the current HSTs...
Letter from DfT for the deferred works:
Network Rail will be scheduling the deferred electrification work as part of their planning process for CP6. This will commence over the next year, once the department has set out
the priorities for the next control period, after taking advice from...
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