Business Case / Communications
Communications
York & North Yorkshire is situated in a strategic location, right in the centre of the UK. With an excellent infrastructure allowing easy access to local, national and international markets, York & North Yorkshire is a shrewd location choice.
Road
Road links in the district are superb and the main business centres of the UK can all be easily reached. The A1 goes directly through the middle of the North Yorkshire, and leads on to the A68 main trunk road to the North East and Scotland, and the M1 to London. The A59 leads straight to the commercial centre of the West, Manchester, and Liverpool. Manchester can be reached easily in 1 ½ hours and London in 3 ½ hours.
Rail
600 million passengers pass through York every year
York & North Yorkshire is extremely well served by the rail network, with its position on the East Coast Mainline. York to London can be reached in less then one hour and fifty minutes, which is faster than many London commuter towns. 31 trains travel from York to London per day on the East Coast mainline. 32 trains per day travel from York to Edinburgh, with a journey duration of only 2 and a half hours. Northallerton in the district of Hambleton is also situated on the East Coast Mainline rail link.
York station is one of the major stations in the UK with direct rail services running to all the country’s main regional centres. There are 72 trains per day to Newcastle and 49 to Manchester and Manchester International Airport.
Trains from Selby, Skipton and Harrogate run directly to London each day.
Air
Manchester International Airport
o 90 minutes drive from York
o Extensive range of European and International destinations
o Handling over 100 scheduled services daily
o A direct hourly rail link connects York station with the Airport
Leeds Bradford International Airport
o 45 minute drive from York.
o York Air Coach, a direct Shuttle Bus service to Leeds Bradford Airport, leaves York train station every hour from 4.45am - www.yorkaircoach.com.
o Gateway to Europe - daily flights to Amsterdam, Brussels and Paris
o 50 minute shuttle service to Heathrow - 11 times a day
Durham & Tees Valley Airport
o 50 minute drive from York
o Shuttle service to Heathrow - 3 times a day
o Customs transit warehouse
Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield
o 50 minute drive from York
o 36 destinations in 21 countries
o 25 minutes by train from York to Doncaster. An hourly shuttle service connects Doncaster station to the airport.
Newcastle International Airport
o Flights to 90 worldwide destinations
o Newcastle is 1 hour by train or a 2-hour drive from York.
Sea
The Humber Port is the largest port complex in the UK, servicing 53 countries including South America, North America and the Far East. It is conveniently located just over an hour away from areas of York & North Yorkshire.
Most European cities can be reached within 24 hours from the ports, some within 12 hours providing fast and easy access to European markets. These fast overnight crossings mean hauliers can drive 9 hours into mainland Europe within their time allowances.
Daily, overnight services to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge are available from Hull - 60 minutes from York.
Convenient services to all Scandinavian countries are also available from Teeside and Newcastle - 60 minutes from York.
Bandwidth
Broadband telecommunications
As one of the UK's foremost high-technology hotspots, we recognise in York & North Yorkshire that you will need all the bandwidth you can get, with the reassurance that more will be available as technology advances. In June 2003 BT announced that broadband communications had accelerated faster in York than almost anywhere in the UK.
Broadband has spread out to surrounding areas. Almost the entire county and all major business locations are now online with over 99% coverage of the county.
Scaleable broadband on demand at the IT Centre
The IT Centre on York Science Park provides 100Mb link which can be opened up for tenants to use on a day-to-day basis. For example a company may want 2Mb as standard but occasionally to scale that up to 10Mb for larger pieces of work.
Fibre provision
For many years now, York has been laying fibre-optic cables beneath its ancient streets, and can now justifiably claim to have one of the most comprehensive fibre networks of any city in the UK.
Some of the main business parks are designated as BT eLocations and have dual-fibre provision, for the ultimate in peace of mind. Fibre offers a synchronous connection meaning total reliability of speed and connection for each user.
York can also offer a range of possible fibre providers, including BT (which has its Northern headquarters in York), Fibernet, York Data Services, and NTL.
