{"id":2708,"date":"2026-01-29T12:46:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2708"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:46:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T12:46:46","slug":"waiting-an-hour-for-the-next-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2708","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Waiting an hour for the next one&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe believe that Northerners have had to put up with a second rate rail system for far too long, and we want a \u2018turn-up-and-go railway\u2019. No more faffing around with looking at the timetable before you go to the station.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo more worrying if you miss your train, that you&#8217;re going to have to wait for an hour for the next one. We think that people in the north of England, in the northwest of England, deserve a service that people in London and the southeast of England get.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Heidi Alexander, Secretary of State for Transport, 22nd January 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe believe that Northerners have had to put up with a second rate rail system for far too long, and we want a \u2018turn-up-and-go railway\u2019. No more faffing around with looking at the timetable before you go to the station. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/?p=2708\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","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=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smart-rail.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}