Did Tories cover up the rail crisis? Big projects halted weeks after party’s election promises to spend billions on the network
‘Ministers were accused of a pre-election cover-up last night after they announced bombshell plans to scale back rail improvements worth billions of pounds.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin told MPs that rising costs and missed targets meant that the £38.5billion Network Rail modernisation plan – a centrepiece of the Tory manifesto only two months ago – was now untenable.
Two major electrification schemes in the North and the Midlands would be halted, he said, while wider spending plans would be amended after running out of control.’
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