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This will not help , For LBA to grow as they would like. And given the state of a certain rail operator,
In that Area, and it's longer range relation .
They are both Struggling for reliable rolling stock, old and new. ( Plus struggling with time tables and available paths on existing lines ) .
Having just read a rail publication, that stated an order has been placed to lengthen ' new trains' from five cars sets to.six', and to keep stock , and again add more carriages ., In other words , to add this link.would need an extra full pair at least of between six to eight coach sets to make it viable as a method of tempting folk from their cars , ( who wants to stand , crammed like ' sardines '?).
The rail link is great , but to be meeting the ' climate emergency , they will need to have it as an electrified line, which means finding funding to electrify Harrogate from Leeds .
So the question is , until they sort out the mess of the rail franchise system and other infrastructure in the North it's little more than a pipe dream .
But also not everyone will want to pile a tonne of bags, three kids etc etc, onto some clapped out geriatric hand me down train or ' pacer ', when they can go ' door to door', by car. So to cancel.a scheme , that would have bypassed the built up area, through which one had to travel from Leeds city, to LBA.
is madness, as the airport grows, more will use it, less will use the train, and the pollution levels will be unbearable in the communities along the way .
So well done to the climate protest , and Leeds city council for not seeing the bigger picture.