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Transport minister Huw Merriman has met with MPs in Lancashire to discuss the potential reinstatement of passenger services to the northern section of the Ribble Valley line.

The section of the Ribble Valley line north of Blackburn was closed to passenger services in 1962 but remained open for freight. In 1994,…

The transport committee has written to Mark Harper calling the government’s response to its decarbonisation report “disappointing” and has demanded a long-term rail electrification strategy.

Fuelling the Future is the transport select committee’s reaction to the government’s Transport Decarbonisation Plan, released in July 2021, which aims to offer advice on decarbonisation…