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Yorkshire leaders welcome £45bn Northern Powerhouse rail plans
The UK Government allocates £1.1 billion for planning upgrades in Yorkshire's rail network to enhance capacity, support jobs, and reduce travel times, officials said.
- The UK government committed £1.1bn to progress planning for Northern Powerhouse Rail within a £45 billion funding envelope, prioritising Yorkshire by strengthening Leeds–York links and York's rail hub role.
- Aimed at redressing decades of underinvestment, the programme seeks to deliver faster, more frequent and reliable services, while officials say Northern Powerhouse Rail will support skilled jobs, unlock housing and broaden labour markets to help cities such as York compete nationally.
- Plans envisage replacing Bradford Interchange with a through station despite Bradford being a city of 500,000, alongside upgrades at Leeds, York, Sheffield and a possible new Rotherham Gateway Station.
- While mayors welcomed the funding, campaigners and some passengers remain sceptical, with Railfuture raising delivery concerns and commuters voicing doubts about whether it will materialise.
- Work on Northern Powerhouse Rail is expected to be delivered in three phases with Yorkshire prioritised in the first stage, after the programme was scaled back from the original trans‑Northern route concept by the Conservative government in 2021.
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Government’s Northern Powerhouse Rail plans are to be welcomed but it must convince the region that this time it will be different
The Government’s announcement that a raft of transport projects in Yorkshire are to be prioritised in the first phase of Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) is to be welcomed.
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