Plan for major devolution of northern rail network 'hangs in the balance’

Dom Browne

18 November 2013

Plans to devolve the bulk of the north’s rail network to local authority control have stalled in Whitehall according to reports, with one official reported as saying the plan ‘hangs in the balance'.

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