The Prime Minister has vowed to upgrade struggling rail services between Manchester and Yorkshire as he announced £415 million in transport funding. It comes after delays to the electrification of the TransPennine route upgrade between Manchester and York following the dropping of the Phase 2 HS2 extension. Sir Keir Starmer said he hopes to complete the project by 2030. Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00We've been able today to announce a huge, the biggest ever, amount of money going into transport in the north, £1.7 billion.
00:09So that's a huge package for all sorts of transport.
00:13But the one in particular I wanted to emphasise is £415 million extra going into the TransPennine Railway and the upgrade of that.
00:22So that's a £10 million project. It's a huge project and it's going to increase the efficiency of that service hugely.
00:31It's going to double the amount of seats so the capacity will be much bigger.
00:35So those of you that are working on the fabric for the seats, you're going to be really busy because whatever you're doing now,
00:42we're going to need twice as many of them when we get to this and we hope to ensure this is done early in the 2030s.