The north is used to being treated as a second-class region. But it’s the broken promises that really hurt
There’s a default facial expression that those of us who commute by train around Yorkshire and the rest of the north regularly wear.
It’s one of grim resignation, which on particularly bad days hardens into scowling resentment at being packed so tightly into monstrously overcrowded carriages on journeys that proceed glacially slowly.
Andrew Vine is a freelance journalist and author based in Yorkshire
