A branch of HS2 that would connect the high-speed rail line to the west coast main line at Wigan is to be scrapped, Sir Graham Brady has told constituents.
The chairman of the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs said he had received “categorical verbal assurances” from Grant Shapps, the transport secretary, that plans for the Golborne Link will be axed in the summer.
The Golborne Link would connect the Crewe-Manchester section of HS2 to the west coast route just south of Wigan. It would cut through four miles of Brady’s Altrincham & Sale West constituency and is included in the HS2 Bill, which is going through parliament.
