East Coast Railway Line
(asked on 13th December 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what proportion of the new InterCity train sets allocated to the East Coast franchise will be (1) hybrid trains and (2) electric trains.
Answered by
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon
Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 21st December 2016
Based on the assumption that ‘Hybrid’ relates to the Bi-mode trains (i.e. those using both diesel and electric traction power), we can confirm that of the 65 sets allocated to East Coast, the proportions will be 23 Bi-modes and 42 Electric sets.