East Coast Main Line: Standards
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve rail services on the East Coast Main Line.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
The Department has invested £4bn in route-wide upgrades – including new trains and improvements to platforms, tracks, signals and junctions.
This will deliver journey time, reliability and capacity improvements, with more than 60,000 extra seats across the route each week, faster services between London and Edinburgh, and London to Leeds, and a third train per hour to and from London and Newcastle. This will all form part of the new timetable in December.
The Department are now working closely with Network Rail and industry stakeholders to develop a long-term strategy for the route.
Verbatim has judged this answer against the question that was actually asked — answered, partly answered, or evaded. Sign in to see the verdict →