SAM ROWLANDS, Member of the Welsh Parliament for North Wales, has criticised a decision not to run more trains from Wrexham to London.
Mr Rowlands, Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Transport, who constantly calls for better rail service in North Wales, said: “I am really disappointed to hear that plans for a three hour rail journey from Wrexham to London have been turned down. As the city continues to attract visitors from far and wide it really was essential that this sort of public transport is available.
“With the new Labour Government failing to commit to the last Conservative Government’s planned investment in the North Wales mainline it was absolutely vital that everything possible is done to improve rail services for the people in my region.
“Not only would it have been great for residents but it was also be another way of encouraging visitors to visit Wrexham and the rest of North Wales.”
Wrexham Council recently met with the Wrexham, Shropshire and Midlands Railway Company Ltd who proposed to run an Open Access Service that can get you from Wrexham, to the heart of London in three hours.
The new service would have created 50 jobs and with the first trains departing in the Summer 2025.
The proposal was for five trains per day in each direction Monday to Saturday, with four travelling both ways on Sundays.
Trains would have stopped at Gobowen, Shrewsbury, Telford Central, Wolverhampton, Darlaston, Walsall, Coleshill Parkway, Nuneaton and Milton Keynes on their journey between Wrexham General and London Euston.
