<p>The Wales and Borders Rail Network </p>

Part of 3. 2. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:29 pm on 23 May 2017.

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Photo of Nick Ramsay Nick Ramsay Conservative 2:29, 23 May 2017

First Minister, 60 years ago I would’ve been able to travel from my village of Raglan in Monmouthshire by rail to Cardiff. That can’t be done now, because obviously, we lost a lot of the branch line rail network back in the 1950s and 1960s. You’ve mentioned the need to make sure that the metro is expandable and that it reaches areas of south Wales and the south-east Wales city region that it hasn’t to date, or wouldn’t be able to at the moment. Have you looked any more at the issue of a potential metro hub at the Celtic Manor, or within the area of the Celtic Manor? I have raised this in the past with the Cabinet Secretary for infrastructure. I think that if you looked at developing a hub at that point, you could then have a very good core to build out from into the rural areas around Newport and up to my neck of the woods, to make sure that everyone could benefit from the metro.