Trains: Procurement

(asked on 19th June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost of replacing diesel trains with hybrid and electric trains.


Answered by
Andrew Jones Portrait
Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 26th June 2019

The Department has not made an estimate of the cost of replacing diesel trains. The Government has set out its ambition to remove all diesel-only trains from the network by 2040, and the rail industry are producing a decarbonisation report which will set out how it can achieve this objective.

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