Transformational Transpennine investment – or just the best of a bad lot for England’s North?

Transpennine bridge CGI (NR)

There have been very few discordant voices raised in dissent since the revised funding package was announced for the Transpennine route. Ambitious it certainly is. A multi-billion-pound rail upgrade in West Yorkshire has been approved, promising a faster, greener, better-connected railway the North of England – although not actually the fastest, greenest, best-connected railway.

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Author: Simon Walton

Simon Walton is UK correspondent for RailTech.com and Railfreight.com

1 comment op “Transformational Transpennine investment – or just the best of a bad lot for England’s North?”

bönström bönström|25.07.22|10:35

“More reliable”, etc., value loaded speech, regrettably is misleading.
“Reiable”, simply is the requested – and the high quality, at railways, now timely.
Goal, the post Brexit, however, the singular, by society, urgently has to be understandable.
Not just authorities, but entrepreneurs, within all Hemisphere, with private capital, etc., then will align and accordingly, invest.
Goal for England/Scotland, hereby suggested: max benefitting of unique advantage – nearness to ports, ocean, etc,!

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Transformational Transpennine investment – or just the best of a bad lot for England’s North?

Transpennine bridge CGI (NR)

There have been very few discordant voices raised in dissent since the revised funding package was announced for the Transpennine route. Ambitious it certainly is. A multi-billion-pound rail upgrade in West Yorkshire has been approved, promising a faster, greener, better-connected railway the North of England – although not actually the fastest, greenest, best-connected railway.

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Author: Simon Walton

Simon Walton is UK correspondent for RailTech.com and Railfreight.com

1 comment op “Transformational Transpennine investment – or just the best of a bad lot for England’s North?”

bönström bönström|25.07.22|10:35

“More reliable”, etc., value loaded speech, regrettably is misleading.
“Reiable”, simply is the requested – and the high quality, at railways, now timely.
Goal, the post Brexit, however, the singular, by society, urgently has to be understandable.
Not just authorities, but entrepreneurs, within all Hemisphere, with private capital, etc., then will align and accordingly, invest.
Goal for England/Scotland, hereby suggested: max benefitting of unique advantage – nearness to ports, ocean, etc,!

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