Railways: North of England

(asked on 23rd March 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate he has made of the completion date of the Transpennine Rail upgrade.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 30th March 2021

We are currently evaluating a range of different options for the TransPennine Route Upgrade (TRU) which will be selected later this year, informed by the Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands. These options range in their delivery date dependent on the option which is eventually chosen.

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