Railways: North of England

(asked on 29th November 2017) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the remarks by Baroness Sugg on 31 October (HL Deb, col 1360) on future railway investment, what steps they intend to take to improve rail services in West Cumbria and on the Newcastle to Carlisle line.


Answered by
Baroness Sugg Portrait
Baroness Sugg
This question was answered on 13th December 2017

The following train service improvements will be delivered by December 2019:-

  • More frequent trains will be provided from Carlisle to MetroCentre and Newcastle (2tph), at least 10 of which per day will be high-quality Northern Connect services using fully refurbished trains.

  • Up to six extra services will be provided per day to stations on the Cumbria Coast route between Barrow-in-Furness and Carlisle, with more capacity on the busiest services and the timetable better suited to employees at Sellafield and Whitehaven.

  • Sunday services from Carlisle to Whitehaven will be extended to Barrow-in-Furness and frequency enhanced, providing a Sunday service on the full length of the Cumbria Coast route.

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