The campaign group Railfuture is calling on Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin and HS2 chairman Sir David Higgins to keep their options open with regard to the scrapping of the proposed HS1-HS2 link line. Railfuture spokesman Bruce Williamson said: "It's right that the previous proposal for a link via tunnel and part of the North London Line has been scrapped, because it was never going to work satisfactorily and represented poor value for money, but we share Lord Berkeley's concern that the Government may be prematurely closing off alternative notions".
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