Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many freight only railway lines have been converted to enable passenger travel, and what the cost per mile of track was for those conversions.

Since 2000, freight routes which now carry passenger services include Corby, Chandlers Ford, Ebbw Vale, Vale of Glamorgan and Aylesbury Parkway. The Government does not hold the individual costs per mile of track as these are made up of many elements depending on the nature of the scheme.