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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Toby Helm, Political editor

Labour pledges to make Sunday trains as reliable as weekday services

A Northern train on the platform with passengers waiting to board
State-run Northern trains had 282 cancellation across its network on one Sunday last June. Photograph: Robert Mason/Alamy

Sunday train services will be as reliable as those on weekdays under plans to renationalise the railways, the new transport secretary will claim in a keynote speech on Monday.

Issuing a series of pledges on which the government will be judged by millions of passengers – as well as its political opponents – Heidi Alexander will cite the creation of a network “where Sunday services are as ­reliable as Monday’s” as one of her key priorities.

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