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Lord Harris of Haringey

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Wednesday 4th December 2013

(10 years, 5 months ago)

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My Lords, the Minister was asked why the train operators cannot put on extra carriages. Can he explain how his answer addressed that question?

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I thought that I did address it: we have a shortage of carriages. The only way to address that is by buying new ones and many are on order. However, electrification will obviously help the capacity issue.

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