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distance from london to Manchester

Miles: 163.87
Kilometers: 263.72

Travel from London to Manchester is by train from Euston Train Station, by coach from Victoria Coach Station or transfer flight to Manchester Airport.

By train - train from london to manchester
The journey takes approximately three hours if there no delays. West Coast Main Line (WCML),

By coach
journey takes approximately four hours if there are no delays.

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Manchester International Airport in the South of the city is the largest airport in the UK outside of London. Nearly 100 operators fly to and from hundreds of locations worldwide, including most major cities in Europe.

Metroshuttle is a free minibus run jointly by the local council and First. It runs three lines that bewtween them cover most of the major areas in the Manchester city centre as well as all the stations and many of the larger car parks

Metrolink , also known as the tram, is the name for Manchester's troubled local mass transit system.

British Airways and BMI are among the carriers that have seen passenger numbers on London to Manchester flights drop, following a £7 billion upgrade to the west coast mainline in December 2004.

The investment knocked over half an hour off the train journey and in a period of a just over a year Virgin Trains' market share increased from 40 per cent to 60 per cent.

Passengers flying between Heathrow and Manchester with BMI, however, slumped by 26 per cent between September 2004 and October 2005.

BA hit back at Virgin Trains' marketing assault.

But the rail improvements sparked a change in strategy from at least one airline. BMI has said it will operate smaller aircraft between the cities and has also cut ticket prices.

Friends of the Earth campaigned against a road wideninmg schme in the nineties.
The current roads programme included seven major widening projects from London to Manchester adding up to 1.2 billion, and turning all those sections of motorway into dual four lanes. A further 0.5 million of road work is included around Manchester itself. The only section of widening in the corridor dropped since the 1980s is the widening of the M6 between Coventry and Birmingham.

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Diference in climate between two cities

Total rainfall is higher, in the nothern city, but importantly it falls on many more days and humidity is higher year round. Rainfall rises rapidly as you approach the hills that surround Manchester to the north, east, and southeast, and it is extremely wet at altitude.