We're also looking ahead to the future with our plans for a new high speed rail network linking London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.

They plan to eventually cover 25 miles linking Manchester to East Hartford and to the Crystal Mall in South Windsor.

The railway network developed linking Manchester to its increasingly industrialised hinterland.

The transport secretary has given the green light to a £32bn high-speed rail network linking London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.

The new two-hourly rail service linking Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds and York directly with Middlesbrough is to commence in May.

During 1994, construction work began on a new £1.3M footbridge to link Manchester and Salford, to be known as Trinity Bridge.

Numerous calls have been made to extend the motorway to link Sheffield and Manchester, the fifth and sixth most populous cities in the United Kingdom.

In 1919, it was for a time one of the stops on the UK's first scheduled air passenger service, linking Blackpool, Southport and Manchester.

Soon an extensive network of canals was constructed, linking Manchester to all parts of England.

The Woodhead Line was a railway line linking Sheffield, Penistone and Manchester in the north of England.