West Yorkshire Combined Authority have published, as part of the agenda papers for their Transport Committee on 18th November, their West Yorkshire Rail Strategy
https://westyorkshire.moderngov.co.uk/documents/s17803/Item%2010%20-%20Appendix%201.pdf
It’s all a bit generic, with little to say about specific routes or locations.
It says all the right things,
- about the need for stations to be fully accessible,
- about the need for local stopping services to be half-hourly or better,
- about electrification,
- about the need to deliver the Transpennine Route Upgrade in full (without defining what “in full” means)
- about the quality of rolling stock,
- about cross-boundary services.
Unfortunately the power to make and implement decisions lies elsewhere, with the Department for Transport to be precise. That’s the same Department for Transport who announced the Transpennine Route Upgrade “in full” in 2011, but nine years later have yet to approve what they announced in 2011.