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Mayor ‘holds off’ over threat to end West Midlands Trains franchise after improvement

WEST Midlands Mayor Andy Street has decided not to ask the Department for Transport to remove the Abellio West Midlands Trains (WMT) franchise after seeing a significant uplift in the service during January.

The mayor had made the threat following months of

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