Tag Archives: Transpennine Route Upgrade

“Keep improvements on track: rail passengers welcome investment in Transpennine route”

Posted on July 23, 2020 by admin

Transport Focus has published passenger research they commissioned into the trade-off between disruption during the construction phase and the benefits delivered at the end of it. SMART did get to see and discuss with Transport Focus the research shortly before … Continue reading →

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“Transport Secretary Grant Shapps wants Transpennine railway between Leeds, York and Manchester to be a first-class, fully-electrified route”

Posted on July 23, 2020 by admin

[from the Yorkshire Post, 23rd July 2020] Transport Secretary Grant Shapps has revealed plans for trains between York, Leeds and Manchester to run on a “first-class, fully-electrified railway” as he announced nearly £600m to pay for upgrades to the vital … Continue reading →

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“Let’s now build ‘first class’ trans-Pennine rail line” – Grant Shapps

Posted on July 23, 2020 by admin

[Opinion piece by Grant Shapps, from the Yorkshire Post, 23rd July 2020] Action speaks louder than words. And when it comes to the history of transport infrastructure in Yorkshire, there has been a lot of the latter and not nearly enough … Continue reading →

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“Empowerment must be next for the North’s ‘one voice’ on transport”

Posted on July 21, 2020 by admin

A press release from Transport for the North, remarkably undiplomatic in what it says and how it says it. But entirely justified. “[TfN] made clear Government should green light the full ambitions to electrify the [TransPennine] route mooted now a … Continue reading →

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