Letter from Westminster

摘要

Why is the Department for Transport so resistant to change? Whether High Speed Rail or tram-train, it seems to take an age for Britain to introduce their use. I was therefore very pleased to see a press release from the DfT announcing city running for the tram-train trial in South Yorkshire.rnPassengers could soon see tram-trains running between Sheffield and Rotherham on the freight route from Rotherham and then joining the Sheffield Supertram network at the Meadowhall Interchange. No dates for the introduction of this service were given but it marks progress from what civil servants were saying earlier in the year when I and other MPs met them to discuss the tram-train trial. Then, progress with on-street running was dependent on how well the trial went on the heavy rail sector.