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premium app: Mission statement We will invest 100bn in additional infrastructure spending on roads, rail and other responsible, productive investment which will repair and refurbish the fabric of our country and generate greater growth, according to The Independent. Download the new Indpendent Premium app Sharing the full story, not just the headlines Download now Key ideas Rail would receive many tens of billions of pounds in investments. These are the key points on transport and travel. There is a firm commitment to build Northern Powerhouse Rail formerly known as High Speed 3 between Leeds and Manchester, and then focus on Liverpool, Tees Valley, Hull, Sheffield and Newcastle . The Midlands Rail Hub would see links strengthened between Birmingham, Coventry, Derby, Hereford, Leicester, Nottingham and Worcester. More solid is the vow to restore many of the Beeching lines the 3,000 miles of railway closed after a review of the network begun by the Conservatives in the early 1960s and continued for the rest of the decade by the Labour Party. The commitment to improving train lines to the southwest and East Anglia looks vague and therefore easy to accomplish. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.