{"id":52243,"date":"2015-01-08T09:47:57","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T09:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=53a52d42b77c07658c1a7eea8c70d554"},"modified":"2015-01-08T09:47:57","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T09:47:57","slug":"statement-to-parliament-rail-in-the-north-rolling-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=52243","title":{"rendered":"Statement to Parliament: Rail in the north: rolling stock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>My department has reached agreement with TransPennine Express and Northern Rail on plans to maintain and increase capacity on key routes and these plans will offer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/new-plan-to-secure-rail-services-for-the-north\">extra rolling stock for the north of England<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rail services across the north are vital for passengers and for the economy. By helping people access work and leisure more easily, we are securing long-term economic growth across the region.<\/p>\n<p>That is why my department has worked hard with Northern and Transpennine Express to reach an agreement which means that existing rail services will continue from May 2015. This follows a decision by rolling stock leasing company Porterbrook to move Class 170 diesel trains running on the Northern and Transpennine Express routes to the Chiltern franchise.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the Department for Transport has taken this opportunity to secure benefits for passengers and has reached agreement with the operators of the 2 franchises to offer more carriages and seats, increasing capacity on a number of routes in the north, including between Blackpool and Manchester and into and out of Sheffield in the peaks.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Rail will also be increasing capacity on the Cumbrian Coast line and will be finalising details on this shortly. I will make a further statement on this in due course.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agreement has been reached with with TransPennine Express and Northern Rail that will offer extra rolling stock for the north of England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}