Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:12 pm on 24 January 2017.
I do feel the Member has made himself the font, or the recipient, rather, of all rail-related complaints in the Assembly as a result of his declaration, but he makes an important point. Abertillery, of course, is included in the metro plans as an area of expansion. The railway tracks were last used when the Rose Heyworth mine was still in place some 30 years ago now, nearly. But it is a community that needs to be linked in. Where there are no existing heavy rail lines, then light rail clearly is a preference; it’s more easily extendable and we want to make sure that communities that lost their rail links some years ago do regain them as part of the metro plans.