Railways: Overcrowding

(asked on 3rd June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the level of overcrowding on train services.


Answered by
Andrew Jones Portrait
Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 6th June 2019

More than 4,000 extra weekly services have been added to the network nationally in the last two years, with over 2,000 further services due to be added in the next few years. In addition, as part of a significant investment by Government and train operators to transform the railways, over 7,800 new railway carriages have been ordered since 2010; out of these, 4,500 new carriages will be introduced by the end of 2022, benefitting passengers across the country.

The Government has also agreed a Network Rail settlement for England and Wales of £47.9bn for Control Period 6, aimed at maintaining and renewing the railway to enable existing and future services to run reliably.

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