END OF THE LINE FOR NORTH WALES TRAIN SERVICE PLAN

Bitter blow after 2 years of planning

- TAMLYN JONES News Reporter

PLANS to launch a new rail service linking North Wales, the West Midlands and London have been rejected by the Government.

Train and rail infrastructure manufacturer Alstom teamed up with Birmingham-based consultancy SLC Rail to create a new so-called open-access rail operator known as 'Wrexham, Shropshire and Midlands Railway'.

Under its proposals announced last year, there would have been five daily services running to and from the capital from Monday to Saturday and four on Sundays, connecting some stations directly for the very first time.

The trains would have stopped at Wrexham General, Gobowen, Shrewsbury, Telford Central, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Coleshill Parkway, Nuneaton, Milton Keynes and London Euston and also taken in the new Darlaston station which is currently under construction.