Rail group promotes private sector concession to fund HS2 and alternative Manchester plan

The government has been urged to consider a private sector concession model to help fund the paused HS2 route to Euston and an alternative to the scrapped northern leg to Manchester.

Ahead of the Autumn Budget, due today (October 30), the High Speed Rail Group (HSRG) maintains that the model could provide an ideal way of leveraging private sector money into the two missing sections of HS2.