Trains: Procurement

(asked on 8th March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether long distance high speed passenger rolling stock has been displaced as a result of (a) the Intercity Express Programme and (b) steps taken to encourage more services and competition for passengers across the long distance railway passenger market.


Answered by
Wendy Morton Portrait
Wendy Morton
This question was answered on 15th March 2022

The rolling stock that was replaced by operators as part of the Intercity Express Programme (IEP) is privately owned by a number of rolling stock owning companies (ROSCOs) and was returned to them by operators when the new IEP trains were introduced. It is a matter for the ROSCOs and any future operator to determine the ability of such rolling stock to deliver potential future services.

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