Council leaders across the region are calling for the Government to create a minister for rail resilience for the South West to ensure an immediate and effective response to the collapse of the sea wall at Dawlish.
Plymouth City Council leader Tudor Evans said: “We need to have a minister at a senior level who will do everything in their power to ensure all he agencies work together to...
Alison Seabeck, MP for Plymouth Moor View, has slammed yet another increase in rail fares as constituents, already experiencing a cost of living crisis, now have to deal with higher transport costs to reach London and other key British cities.
Speaking in a House of Commons debate on inter-city rail investment, Ms Seabeck also raised her concerns about the lack of investment into the...
The government has announced that First Great Western Ltd will continue to operate trains between London Paddington and the south west until September 2015.
First Group's First Great Western (FGW) company has reached agreement with the government to continue running the franchise to operate trains between London Paddington, the Cotswolds, south Wales and the south west.
The newly-formed Peninsula Rail Task Force has hit the ground running setting out the case for greater investment across the South West rail network.
A report ‘the South West Spine – the Case for Greater Investment across the South West Peninsula Railway Network’ has been signed by the leaders of all five councils and sent to Ministers at the Department for Transport as well as...
