390131 'City of Liverpool' sweeps around the reverse curve between Roade and Ashton in South Northamptonshire. The Avanti West Coast Pendolino is working the 10.50 Birmingham New Street to Euston service. It is services such as this, taking eighty-seven minutes stop to stop that HS2 will seek to usurp when it commences operations. Whenever this will happen, the same journey will take forty-nine minutes saving an impressive thirty-eight minutes.
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