Railways: Light Rail Vehicles

Lord Greaves Excerpts

Thursday 3rd March 2011 Lords Chamber

[Earl Attlee]

I do not know about that particular line but the noble Lord makes the extremely good point that there will be opportunities to use light rail on old, disused lines.

[Lord Greaves]

My Lords, does the Minister recall that the last time the railways got enthusiastic about getting cheap and cheerful, lighter vehicles to try to reduce costs, we ended up with a generation of pacers about 30 years ago. Whatever happens with this project, the technology certainly has to be a great deal better than that.

[Earl Attlee]

My Lords, I am aware of the pacer vehicles and I agree with much of what my noble friend says.