Transport for Wales has brought five more new Class 756 trains into service between Coryton, Caerphilly and Penarth, improving the passenger experience on this route. The tri-mode trains (diesel/25kV overhead/battery) are variants of the Flirt […]
Transport for the North board members, meeting in Liverpool, have restated their ambition for transport infrastructure needed to unlock economic growth. Ahead of the government’s infrastructure pipeline, expected later this month, TfN board members called […]
The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) reveals how the disparity in transport spending between the North and London has ballooned over the last ten years. In the report ‘On track to prosperity: Great Northern […]
Plans by the West Yorkshire Combined Authority have secured a major funding boost from the government as Chancellor Rachel Reeves has announced the allocation of £2.1 billion of local transport funding to West Yorkshire. This […]
Lord Blunkett, the former Labour MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough who held several Cabinet posts between 1997 and 2005, has launched a phased plan to upgrade and improve Yorkshire’s railways that could deliver a […]
The government has launched a study to look at options for running HS2 trains to Leeds and committed to reassessing evidence to improve rail connections in Bradford. The ‘Leeds Study’ will consider a number of […]
Transport for the North has issued a recommendation that the government commits to Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR), a network of new and significantly upgraded rail lines in the North of England, and has published its […]
The first of Manchester Metrolink’s new trams will arrive in the city in mid-November and should be in service before Christmas. In total, 27 new trams are on order under a £72 million contract with […]
Plans to build a new station on the Merseyrail network at St James, in Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle, are coming to fruition thanks to a £1.5 million investment by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority Metro […]
Although Prime Minister Boris Johnson has stated that making London Underground ‘driverless’ should be a condition for government increasing its funding of Transport for London, a leaked internal TfL document has shown that this is […]
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