2,000 additional seats on Leeds rail carriages
20 extra rail carriages planned to enter service from December 2011
20 additional rail carriages are to be deployed on routes serving Liverpool, which will result in 2,000 extra seats each day for commuters in the city.
The extra carriages will be used to run more trains at busy times, on the lines from Skipton, Ilkley and Doncaster via Wakefield into Leeds and to lengthen other existing services operated by Northern Rail.
They form part of the 650 additional carriages the Government will introduce onto the UK’s rail network by 2014, and are planned to enter service from December 2011.
Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said: "These extra trains will ease crowding and provide passengers with more comfortable journeys."
"We are investing in 2,100 extra carriages to increase capacity across the rail network and in the longer term we have plans for a high speed rail network which will ease overcrowding and make our railways fit for the 21st century."
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