Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the volume of freight transport traffic at Denton Railway Station in each of the next five years.

The Department has not made a specific estimate for the volume of freight traffic at Denton Railway Station in each of the next five years.

Rail freight in the UK is a private sector industry. The services which are provided by Freight Operating Companies are demand-driven, with the origin and destination of these services linked to the needs of their customers.

Any future services would be subject to market demand and are not specified by Government.