Architects tout Stansted as answer to aviation capacity crunch

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Financial Times reveals early-stage plans for a new rail link to Stansted could tackle south east airport capacity problems

A leading firm of architects is working on ambitious plans to resolve the UK's airport capacity crunch through the development of a relatively low cost high speed rail link between Stansted and the City...

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