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Shadow Strategic Rail Authority 8th December 1999
£3.5 million Boost for New Rail Services Signals Start of Multi £ Million Programme

1999-12-08 SRA-001 1

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Office of the Rail Regulator 28 July 2000
Rail Regulator demonstrates year of action in Annual Report 2000

2000-07-28 ORR-001 2

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OPRAF 2 November 2000
Building a better railway: four shortlisted for new Transpennine Express franchise

2000-11-02 OPR-001 3

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Strategic Rail Authority 8 February 2001
New trains for Yorkshire commuters: roll over terms agreed for Northern Spirit and MerseyRail franchises

2001-02-08 SRA-001 4

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Strategic Rail Authority 14 September 2001
SRA's TransPennine Express Moves Forward

2001-09-14 SRA-001 5

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Department for Transport 29 Aug 2002 00:00
Appointments to the Commission for Integrated Transport

2002-08-29 DfT-001 6

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Strategic Rail Authority 6 November 2002
Preferred bidders announced for Transpennine Express

2002-11-06 SRA-001 7

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Strategic Rail Authority 28 July 2003
SRA Announce Preferred Bidder For TransPennine Express

2003-07-28 SRA-001 8

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Grand Central 2 February 2004
New service promises more trains & cheaper fares

2004-02-02 GCR-001 9

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Department for Transport 15 Jul 2004 00:00
North East to get more say in how it runs its railways

2004-07-15 DfT-005 10

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Department for Transport 31 Jul 2008 11:31
£400m Government investment in North East transport

2008-07-31 DfT-002 11

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Department for Transport 15 Dec 2009 10:06
£20m for smart ticketing in our cities within five years

2009-12-15 DfT-001 12

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Department for Transport 8 February 2013
Funding boost for Tyne and Wear Metro

2013-02-08 DfT-001 13

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Department for Transport 3 November 2015
Smart ticketing rollout brings better journeys to north east

2015-11-03 DfT-001 14

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Department for Transport 12 January 2016
Roll-out of smart ticketing will improve bus, rail and tram journeys for millions

2016-01-12 DfT-001 15

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Department for Transport 13 January 2016
Transport ticketing is on a journey of transformation

2016-01-13 DfT-001 16

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Department for Transport 16 November 2017
North set to become first region in country to get new transport powers from government

2017-11-16 DfT-002 17

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Department for Transport 1 December 2017
Transport investment in the north

2017-12-01 DfT-001 18

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Nexus 14 November 2019
Nexus astonished as Metro drivers reject a 15% pay rise

2019-11-14 NEX-001 19

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Department for Transport 13 February 2021
Transport Secretary hails work of transport industry in vaccination roll-out

2021-02-13 DfT-001 20

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Department for Transport 8 July 2025
Green light for over 50 road and rail upgrades supporting over 39,000 new homes and 42,000 jobs

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