As Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Light Rail Group (APPLRG) I recently organised a meeting with Department  for Transport officials on the Tram-Train Trial on the Penistone Line in Yorkshire. Britain's Transport Minister, Paul Clark, agreed to the meeting at a lunch I hosted in Westminster earlier in the year where he was the guest speaker.

As a Light Rail Group we believe tram-trains offer the flexibility to develop truly integrated transport systems. That is now accepted throughout much of Europe - as we saw last year when the APPLRG visited Kassel - so why is it taking so long to be…