93. The Great Northern Rail Crisis
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You wouldn\\u2019t necessarily know it reading the news from London, but the north of England\\u2019s railway network is in a bit of a mess. Delayed electrification work, a new timetable, mass cancellations, the whole shebang.
To explain how bad things are, and how they got that way, I\\u2019m joined by Jen Williams, political and social affairs editor for the Manchester Evening News. She tells me why nobody seems sure who\\u2019s to blame for this mess, and whether there\\u2019s any realistic chance of anyone tidying it up any time soon. All that, and we talk about Andy Burnham, too.
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