If trawl back through various threads, you'll come across numerous posts expressing resentment of railway investment in London and the Home Counties. Curiously, they all seem to come from Yorkshire and Lancashire. They never seem to come from Cornwall or Tyneside, from Wales or Scotland.
The investment per head is usually a fraudulent argument because it compares apples with oranges. To repeat a point I've made before, the correct comparison should be either total central Government funding for all forms of transport divided by the population or total central Government funding for railways divided by the number of railway passengers. This brings us back to my earlier point: your complaints should be with your local politicians. It is they who decide that much of the investment goes into roads, trams and buses.
I've definitely seen people in the North East complain about Northern Rail and the lack of investment too. And let's be honest, the South Lancashire–Western Yorkshire axis
should be complaining; it's 2018, and we're still ferrying around ten million people on rolling stock that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thought in 2003 was too torturous for the people of Tehran. We should not be routinely be subjecting commuters in the country's second/third-largest metropolitan area to elderly two-car rolling stock.
(Also, you know, transport is devolved, and Scotland seems to be doing better for it than England)
Also, whilst local councils
are responsible for roads and light transport on paper, there needs to be cooperation from DafT which is simply not forthcoming. There was a story out of Labour conference last week in which Judith Blake said that Leeds Council need Whitehall approval to do something as simple as paint white hatchings, and the saddest part of that is that it's eminently believable.
Back on topic, though, I've noticed they've started work at Brighouse, extending the platforms a little further towards Mirfield.