Railways: Optical Fibres

(asked on 27th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's press notice entitled On track and online: landmark deal to end mobile dead zones, published 26 June 2025, if she will publish the location of the rail lines due to get improved coverage with 1,000 of ultra fast fibre optic cable.


Answered by
Simon Lightwood Portrait
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 7th July 2025

New high-count 432 fibre

Routes

KMs

London Kings Cross to Newcastle

432

Birmingham New Street to Stoke-on-Trent to Manchester Deansgate

133

London Marylebone to Birmingham Moor Street (via Chilterns)

177

London Paddington to Bristol Parkway to Cardiff

235

Other routes - Great Western Route

26

Total Km

1003

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