Trowse Swing Bridge.
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Better train links between Norwich and Cambridge, including half-hourly services and opening new railway stations, are crucial to stop rural and coastal communities being left behind, MPs have said.
Fifteen Norfolk and Suffolk Conservative MPs have written to transport secretary Grant Shapps urging him to prioritise East Anglian links to and from Cambridge as part of the government s levelling up agenda.
Transport secretary Grant Shapps.
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In the letter, MPs bemoan the appalling links between Norwich, Ipswich and Cambridge, which they said stopped East Anglia fulfilling its economic potential - and left rural and coastal communities behind.