The Welsh Conservatives accused Labour of cutting rail funding by half compared to what was delivered by previous Tory UK governments.
Sam Rowlands, a Tory Member of the Senedd (MS), added it was “disappointing” there there was no commitment to follow through with UK Conservative government plans to electrify the north Wales mainline, “a project that businesses and communities have long called for”.
Plaid Cymru’s Westminster Leader, Liz Saville Roberts, said the announcement would “feel like déjà vu to many people in Wales”, saying the new stations had already been announced in last year’s Spending Review.
“Reheating old promises is not the generational transformation Wales was promised,” she said.
Welsh Liberal Democrat MP David Chadwick also accused the government of “reheating” old announcements ahead of the Senedd election.
“There is still no commitment to electrifying the north Wales or south Wales mainlines, something businesses consistently tell us is essential to unlocking real economic growth across the whole country.”
A Reform UK Wales spokesperson said that during Welsh Labour’s time in government “they’ve shamefully underfunded our transport network, and failed to deliver key projects like the M4 Relief Road”.
A Green party spokesperson called for rail infrastructure to be fully devolved to Wales.
“People have had enough of the UK government starving Wales of rail investment, then spinning a small proportion of what we’re owed as something ground-breaking,” they said.