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Planners have been given the go-ahead to start preparations for a new underground network in Manchester.

Last month, Andy Burnham unveiled ambitious proposals to develop the city’s transport network by going below the surface by 2050.

The Mayor of Greater Manchester had promised Britain’s third largest city its ‘best decade since the Victorian era’.

A new video map shows how the underground tunnels could take shape.

The network would be centred around Piccadilly Station, the city’s largest rail terminus, and would compliment the existing Metrolink tram system.

It would connect the city centre with the suburbs and surrounding towns including, Bolton, Stockport and Ro

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