East Coast Railway Line

(asked on 24th July 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, on how many occasions there has been significant disruption to the East Coast Main Line as a result of points failures in each of the last 12 months.


Answered by
Chris Heaton-Harris Portrait
Chris Heaton-Harris
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
This question was answered on 9th September 2019

In the 12 month period up to 20 July 2019 there were 5 occasions on which points failures on the East Coast Main Line caused more than 500 minutes of delay; 3 of these incidents caused more than 1,000 minutes of delay.

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