News from the East Anglian Branch of Railfuture, Edited by Martin Thorne and Jerry Alderson.
Railfuture News Snippets 376 - 31/07/2024
Following the general election, the new Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, appointed Louise Haigh as the Secretary of State on Friday 5th July 2024. Network Rail Chairman Lord Hendy as a Transport Minister with responsibility for setting up Great British Railways (GBR). Three transport parliamentary under-secretaries have been appointed. The highest profile one is its former shadow Secretary of State for Transport (and latterly a chair of the Transport Select Committee), Lilian Greenwood. The other two are Simon Lightwood and Mike Kane. Stephen Morgan, who was a shadow transport minister has been appointed to a role in education. A list of all appointments can be found here. The outgoing Secretary of State for Transport, Mark Harper, and his predecessor, Grant Shapps, lost their seats.
On 5th July Railfuture published an article (www.railfuture.org.uk/article1912) on what it belived the new government needed to do for the railway.
Labour's plan for Great British Railways was in the King's Speech on 17 July.
East of England Co-op has launched a new convenience store in Ipswich station. It already has one in the building opposite Cambridge North station, and others are planned for Thetford and Bishop's Stortford.
The Mid-Norfolk Railway's station at Dereham closed on Thursday 4th July 2024 so that it could be used as a polling station for the general election.
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Railfuture East Anglia Branch News Snippets 376 - 31/07/2024
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