Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has taken recent steps to help prevent overcrowding on trains during (a) bank holidays and (b) other periods of increased leisure travel.

Train Operating Companies plan their train service using their available fleet to meet expected demand. The Department expects operators to consider local conditions wherever possible to plan additional services when demand is expected to significantly increase, for example providing additional capacity to support major events or extra services to coastal towns when unusually fine weather is forecast. Operators may be constrained by availability of resources or other factors such as safety.