At the height of Thursday’s rush hour, thanks to “power supply problems,”   the entire rail service out of Yorkshire’s biggest city had ground to a   halt. It didn’t get back to normal until the next day.

On Friday morning, I talked to commuters on the lines into Leeds. In their   Yorkshire Posts, the Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond, promised their   county would be “among the big winners” from high-speed rail.

Their stations were dotted with posters selling the dream. But they didn’t   want high-speed trains either. They just wanted trains, of any speed, that   they could get on.

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