Railways: North of England

(asked on 3rd July 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether rolling stock to be delivered to Northern Rail and TransPennine Express over the next six years will be configured to allow the option of retaining the operational role of the guard.


Answered by
Stephen Hammond Portrait
Stephen Hammond
This question was answered on 9th July 2014

A public consultation exercise is being conducted which will inform the franchise specifications. The consultation can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/320806/northern-transpennine-consultation.pdf. No decisions have yet been made. However we expect it will be for the winning bidders of the Northern and TransPennine Express franchise competitions to decide what rolling stock to use and whether to configure this rolling stock to allow for retaining the operational role of the guard.

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