Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the HS2 contract awarded to a Hitachi and Alstom joint-venture, which stations the trains delivered by that contract will serve; which platforms within these stations will also be served by trains operating on Network Rail tracks; and what station platform heights will be used for trains delivered from the contract.

The 54 trains contracted will be able to operate on the HS2 infrastructure as well as the conventional network primarily to serve the routes on the West Coast.

The exact train service will be defined at a later date by the West Coast Partner.

The stations on the HS2 infrastructure will offer street to train seat step free, with a platform height of 1115mm.