The Voice of the Westcountry No Excuses for Two-Tier Trains

Summary

---

SUDDENLY, after three decades of resistance verging upon outright hostility, the Department for Transport (DfT) has committed the Government to driving forward a massive expansion of rail electrification across the UK.

This remarkable U-turn is to be welcomed for a myriad reasons long-advocated by lobbyists, not least on environmental grounds but certainly too in helping to safeguard UK Ltd's overall competitiveness within the EU and to improve inter-regional links.

See the full content of this document

Extract

---

The Voice of the Westcountry No Excuses for Two-Tier Trains

Specific to what Whitehall perceives geographically to be the South West, the plan announced by Secretary of State for Transport Lord Adonis includes electrification by 2017 of the Great Western ...

See the full content of this document

---