Electric trains are a dream for the future in Lancashire

We are told by the water companies that the above inflation increase to our water rates is so that they can INVEST in infrastructure to fix the long-term problems with regard to, for example, their poor treatment of sewage.

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The one thing that water companies are good at is drains, for they are always pleading poverty and so start draining our bank accounts.

The same could be said of the railways, with the rail companies also pleading poverty and so making their customers pay more each year and using again the term 'investing' (in new trains and infrastructure).

Around here in Lancashire, we would love to see the splendid, sleek, comfortable, electric-powered and very modern trains that we see Michael Portillo travelling in on his latest series taking in some Scandinavian countries, Switzerland and France. Even their 'local trains' put ours to shame.