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PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Railways: North of England (10 January 2018)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, when his Department received the options paper on the development of potential infrastructure options for the Transpennine route upgrade.

Asked by:
Rachael Maskell (Labour)

Answer

The Department received a report from Network Rail outlining a series of options for upgrading the Transpennine Route in December. The Department is committed to taking this programme forward to the next development stage and is working together with local stakeholders on this.

A range of options were assessed by Network Rail in the development of their report to deliver increased line speeds and capacity. The report does not make any recommendations; rather it provides a series of potential interventions that deliver a range of outputs.


Answered by:
Lord Johnson of Marylebone (Conservative)
17 January 2018

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