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Italy to build new high-speed rail line cutting journey from UK to just six
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   The Turin-Lyon high-speed railway was given the green light by prime
   minister Giuseppe Conte this week
     * Jon Stone Europe Correspondent @joncstone
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   The Italian government has given the green light to a new high-speed
   rail line that would cut the train journey between London and Italy to
   just six hours.

   The Turin-Lyon high-speed railway has been in limbo for months after
   the country’s new populist government threatened to cancel it.

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   A direct service through the channel tunnel from London would take
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   get to Italy three hours faster.

   “Not building the high-speed line would cost much more than building
   it,” Italy’s prime minister Mr Conte said in his statement.

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   The line is 270km long, of which 57.7km is tunnelled. It will connect
   with the LGV Sud Est high-speed line at the French end and the
   Turin-Milan high-speed railway at the Italian end. A service to London
   would use HS1 through Kent and LGV Nord through northern France, likely
   bypassing central Paris on the LGV Interconnexion Est line.

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