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High Speed 3
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Northern Powerhouse Rail.
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NPR has often been referred to in the press as "High Speed 3" or "HS3", in reference to the development of high-speed rail in the United Kingdom. The first high speed railway line to be built in Britain was High Speed 1 (HS1), the route connecting London to the Channel Tunnel, which opened 2003–2007. A second high speed line, High Speed 2 (HS2), is currently being constructed between London and Birmingham. HS3 refers to the potential development of a third high speed rail route as part of NPR.