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Category Archives: Electrification
WYCA Kirklees Consultation Transport Committee, 21 October 2020
Cllr Rob Walker, Chair of SMART, was able to ask questions at the WYCA Kirklees Consultation Transport Committee meeting held on 21st October. The main question focused on the plans to mitigate difficulties for travellers from Slaithwaite & Marsden stations … Continue reading
“Electrification ‘desperately needed’ for Greenfield station”
[from the Oldham Chronicle, 14 September 2020] Full electrification is ‘desperately needed’ at Greenfield station, Oldham East and Saddleworth MP Debbie Abrahams has said in a letter to the transport secretary, Grant Shapps. The Government announced in July that it was merely ‘considering’ the … Continue reading
Upgrades across Pennines needed now (no use waiting decades for high speed)
[Press release issued by Halifax & District Rail Action Group, on behalf of Stalybridge to Huddersfield Rail Users’ Group (SHRUG) and others. SMART is part (one third, to be precise) of SHRUG)] Campaigners in West Yorkshire are extremely concerned about … Continue reading
Trans-Pennine rail £2.9bn upgrade will cause five years of route closures, longer journeys and less capacity
A letter from Network Rail to the Transport Secretary sets out some of the potential outcomes of the proposed Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU), and the potential disruption during a construction period of five years. “Communities at Ravensthorpe, Mirfield, Batley, Dewsbury, … Continue reading