All 1 Debates between Lord Grayling and William Wragg

Rail Timetabling

Debate between Lord Grayling and William Wragg
Monday 4th June 2018

(6 years, 5 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Lord Grayling Portrait Chris Grayling
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Both Northern rail and GTR have a whole lot of questions to answer and they are in the last chance saloon, so the hon. Lady is absolutely right. On the comments that her constituents rightly make about the trains, it is time for all those trains to be replaced, and over the coming months they are going to be.

William Wragg Portrait Mr William Wragg (Hazel Grove) (Con)
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The announcement of an inquiry and compensation is of course welcome. Leaving aside the atrocious implementation of the new Northern timetable, will my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State bang heads together to sort out the morning peak-time 45-minute gap in services that is affecting my constituents so badly?

Lord Grayling Portrait Chris Grayling
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We will do that. I will ask the Minister of State, my hon. Friend the Member for Orpington (Joseph Johnson), to sit down with my hon. Friend and go through this to make sure that we address some of the timetable anomalies that inevitably come out of a big change like this, which are not just short-term issues but actually structural issues in the timetable.