Elisabeth Wilson and Hilary Myers at Sowerby Bridge station with a Lib Dem supporter

Elisabeth Wilson, candidate for Halifax, got together with Hilary Myers, candidate for Calder Valley and eager Liberal Democrat campaigners and gave out leaflets to commuters at all the railway stations in Halifax and Calder Valley constituencies, as soon as the general election was announced officially. Travellers on their way home were greeted at Halifax, Sowerby Bridge, Todmorden, Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd, and Brighouse stations.

Elisabeth has welcomed the Liberal Democrat announcement on Monday that they plan to switch expenditure from road to rail, and set out radical plans to revitalise the railways by improving and reopening rail lines and stations.

The party will set up a Rail Expansion Fund of nearly £3bn from which councils and transport authorities can bid for money to pay for rail improvement and expansion projects.

Elisabeth said: “Sowerby Bridge Station just isn’t inviting. It would be an obvious station for improvement.”
It would be the biggest expansion since the Victorian age.

Elisabeth on a previous visit to Sowerby Bridge station