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TRANSPORT spending per head in London is more than double that of spending per head in the North East, it has emerged, just 24 hours after the Government's scrapped its flagship rail investment project for the region.
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- HS2: Grant Shapps balks at betrayal claims over scrapped rail planThe transport secretary says the
Financial Times
- HS2: slow train to Bradford wrecks the economic caseOnly by adding the full 'Y' network can you get to a benefit-to-cost ratio higher than 1.5:1
- The UK's new rail plan for the north is beyond satireThe government is trumpeting yet another betrayal as a once-in-a-century revolution
- Johnson will U-turn on scaling back HS2, Osborne predictsFormer UK chancellor says pressure will mount on PM to change course ahead of election
The Guardian
- Frustration grows as HS2 derails and 'levelling up' goes off track | LettersReaders react to the scaled-back plans and the broken promises about infrastructure investment in the north of EnglandIntegrated rail plan? It's more like a dog's breakfast. When Grant Shapps blew the whistle to send a train from Okehampton to Exeter this week, he waxed lyrical about the reopening of a branch line that had been closed for 49 years, and told those listening to look out for more exciting developments. Leaving aside the fact that the line has been operating on summer weekends thanks to the dedication of volunteers, the 11 miles of replacement track laid by Network Rail a...
- Government planning'to put HS2 on stilts through Manchester'Andy Burnham demands underground station for new route rather than cheaper series of viaductsSwathes of central Manchester could be blighted by viaducts looming over the homes of thousands of people because the government has refused to fund an underground station in the city centre, Andy Burnham has warned.This week the government said it would build a new surface station in Manchester for HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail, a partly new line to Leeds via Huddersfield. It will be situated next door to the existing Piccadilly station, which does not have platforms long enough to accommodate HS2...
- Rebirth of the line: Devon joy as rail link reopens after 50-year hiatusOkehampton welcomes revamp of service connecting Dartmoor town to Exeter and beyondIn 1972, the people of Okehampton turned out in force to wish a fond farewell to the Devon moorland town's regular passenger rail service.The mayor, Walter John Passmore, carried a funeral wreath and his wife, Daisy, waved the green flag to signal the final train’s departure, just about managing a sad smile for the cameras. Continue reading...
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The Independent
- Boris Johnson news - live: Northern rail powers stripped in 'power grab', as PM orders migrant crisis reviewWhitehall doesn't want the north to have a 'strong voice', says Burnham
Bradford Telegraph & Argus
- Northern leaders to discuss Government's 'woefully inadequate' rail planA GROUP of Northern political leaders will discuss the Government's
Daily Post (North Wales)
- 'Shambolic rail system' attacked as child in a wheelchair forced off packed North Wales trainTransport for Wales criticised as passengers struggle to get on an already packed train at Chester
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- Network Rail reveal reconstruction works to Nuneaton railway bridgeSpecial permission is needed
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
- Freight train capacity doubles to Port of LiverpoolThe government has announced that final works on the £8.3 million Bootle branch rail line upgrade have been completed, delivering a doubling of freight train capacity to and from the Port of Liverpool. Funded by the Department for Transport, the upgrade allows up to 2 freight trains an hour in each direction, meaning more trains will be able to deliver vital goods to and from the port for import and export, meeting predicted demand for rail freight for the coming decades. Work on the track along the Bootle line has been a long-term project and it reopened to freight traffic...
- Government announces £96B rail investmentThe biggest ever public investment in Britain’s rail network has been announced by the government, with £96 billion to deliver faster and better journeys to more people across the North and the Midlands. Transforming connectivity, the Integrated Rail Plan (IRP) will transform both east to west and north to south links, building 3 new high-speed lines, improving rail services to and between the East and West Midlands, Yorkshire and the North West including: Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) will connect Leeds and Manchester in 33 minutes, down from 55 minutes now HS2 Ea...
- Devil in the Integrated Rail Plan detail, says CILTCILT has expressed its disappointment at the decision not to proceed in full with HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail. It is also deeply concerned at the absence of critical information in Government’s much delayed Integrated Plan for Rail. CILT says that deferment of the Eastern leg of HS2 and NPR east of the Pennines, if unavoidable, is acceptable - cancellation is not. It is crucial that these options are preserved for the future, when a fully decarbonised transport system with sufficient capacity for all main traffic flows will be essential. Daniel Parker-Klein, Director of Policy and C...
Railnews
- Anger follows publication of Integrated Rail Plan The £96 billion Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands has been greeted with bitter criticism in the north of England. Transport secretary Grant Shapps said the new plan was 'ambitious' and 'deliverable', but Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram said: 'The Integrated Rail Plan was a once in a generation opportunity. Properly delivered, it had the potential to be as transformative for rail travel as Stephenson’s Rocket. Instead, they have proposed a service that could have been promoted by Gladstone in the Victorian era.'
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