Calls have been made to ensure trains bought to specifically to serve the West Midlands are kept in the region when the service is nationalised.

Earlier this year, the Government announced West Midlands Trains would be brought back under public control from February 1 next year

But, at a West Midlands Combined Authority's (WMCA) Transport Delivery and Overview Scrutiny Committee meeting, members were told there were concerns new trains allocated to the region could be lost.

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Birmingham Conservative group leader Robert Alden raised the issue, flagging up concerns from the transport member engagement group he chairs.

He said: "With the ending of the West Midlands Trains contract, all the local train

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