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Northern Rail gain a franchise extension

Posted on May 11, 2012 by admin

The Department for Transport (DfT) has granted a continuation of Northern Rail’s Northern Franchise. Northern will continue to operate local and regional rail services across the north of England until 1 April 2014. Ian Bevan, Managing Director, Northern Rail said: … Continue reading →

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Consultation on RailPlan 7

Posted on May 8, 2012 by admin

Metro has today published its draft RailPlan 7, which “seeks to build on the Local Transport Plan (LTP3) 2011-26 and the Yorkshire Rail Network Study by setting out Metro’s approach to deliver sustainable economic growth by improving the rail network … Continue reading →

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Customer information screens at Marsden & Slaithwaite – sometime, possibly

Posted on May 1, 2012 by admin

Metro are installing customer information screens at 18 stations across West Yorkshire. Unfortunately not here. Not yet anyway.   Response from Metro to an enquiry from SMART as to when customer information screens will be installed at Marsden and Slaithwaite … Continue reading →

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Passenger survey by TfGM and Metro

Posted on May 1, 2012 by admin

A reminder that the deadline for completing TfGM’s passenger survey is this coming Friday, 4th May. Paper copies of the survey were handed out on the trains on a Sunday before Easter, on Saturday 28th April and on Tuesday 1st … Continue reading →

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