{"id":2559,"date":"2025-02-16T22:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T22:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2559"},"modified":"2025-03-06T20:49:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T20:49:41","slug":"long-route-to-getting-rail-network-in-north-back-on-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2559","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Long route to getting rail network in North back on track&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A front page story in the Yorkshire Post, plus an editorial and two pages of articles about the Transpennine Route Upgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of it is behind a paywall, but for the YP it&#8217;s possible to pay for individual articles without a full subscription.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is some interesting stuff in these articles, plus a bit of the unwarranted self-congratulation which has characterised government and Network Rail pronouncements about TRU and its various predecessor acronyms over many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkshirepost.co.uk\/news\/transport\/transpennine-route-upgrade-will-give-north-a-rail-network-to-rival-elizabeth-line-4992423\">\u00a311.5bn plan &#8216;will give North a rail network to rival Elizabeth line&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkshirepost.co.uk\/news\/transport\/long-route-to-getting-rail-network-in-north-back-on-track-4992451\">Long route to getting rail network in North back on track<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkshirepost.co.uk\/news\/transport\/transpennine-route-upgrade-shows-north-can-deliver-major-rail-projects-4992459\">TransPennine Route Upgrade shows North can deliver major rail projects<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkshirepost.co.uk\/news\/opinion\/columnists\/transpennine-route-upgrade-will-see-norths-potential-unleashed-heidi-alexander-4992440\">TransPennine Route Upgrade will see North&#8217;s potential unleashed &#8211; Heidi Alexander<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkshirepost.co.uk\/news\/opinion\/columnists\/transpennine-route-upgrade-is-to-be-applauded-but-work-needed-to-restore-confidence-in-the-regions-railway-network-4991986\">TransPennine Route Upgrade is to be applauded but work needed to restore confidence in the region\u2019s railway network<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and the letter we were prompted to send to the Yorkshire Post in response<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkshirepost.co.uk\/news\/opinion\/letters\/communities-like-slaithwaite-have-not-been-consulted-properly-over-the-transpennine-route-upgrade-yorkshire-post-letters-5002537\">Communities like Slaithwaite have not been consulted properly over the Transpennine Route Upgrade &#8211; Yorkshire Post Letters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A front page story in the Yorkshire Post, plus an editorial and two pages of articles about the Transpennine Route Upgrade. Some of it is behind a paywall, but for the YP it&#8217;s possible to pay for individual articles without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2559\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-2559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transpennine-route-upgrade","tag-tpe-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2577,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2559\/revisions\/2577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}