It has been a very long time since a significant new railway was built in the North of England. Plenty got closed in the 1960s but, with a few tiny exceptions, the network is effectively operating on lines constructed well over 100 years ago.
There has, of course, been significant updating but there has never been a proper thought-out scheme for a modern coordinated service. Instead, there is a mess of different operating companies, confusing ticketing systems, long and unreliable journey times between major cities and some of the most squalid stations in Europe.
I disagreed with my own party on this and believed that the investment was necessary to develop the capacity we needed on a very busy service and that any environmental cost would be offset by reduced car journeys. Now we have the worst of both worlds. Freshly announced schemes for the north are just loosely costed ambitions for a distant future. The cancellation of the improved links to London are very real.
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