How to get North’s railways back on track without delay – Sir Andrew Cook

By Sir Andrew Cook
Published 8th Jan 2020, 05:46 BST
Updated 8th Jan 2020, 06:46 BST
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RIGHT, Boris Johnson: let’s get cracking. Res non verba, as you, a classicist, won’t need translating. For us mere mortals, I’ll put it in English too. ‘Deeds not words’, and I mean deeds to make the lives of the people of Yorkshire a little easier.

I’ll start with public transport and, firstly, trains. Yes, some new trains are on order, but not enough of them, and the system on which they will run is fragmented and archaic.

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Turn your attention from new high speed lines, grand projects which with some modifications could one day be of use to Yorkshire people, and concentrate on the existing Yorkshire and Trans-Pennine systems, where immediate action can deliver rapid results.