High Speed 2 Railway Line
(asked on 5th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the excess capacity on peak High Speed 2 services.
This question was answered on 12th June 2014
The HS2 Economic Case published in October 2013 indicates that the average all-day load factor for HS2 services in 2036 for the full network is expected to be 41%. Peak period load factors are expected to be significantly higher.