Lord Berkeley (Lab)

My Lords, I find some of the comments by the noble Baroness very interesting, but to try to legislate to balance the needs for safety and anything else means that we have to put a value on safety. Tak

My Lords, it is good to have a new—or recycled—colleague in the railway market or, as I might call it, the gricer market. It is really good that he supports all the amendments from other days in Commi

I hope that noble Lords recognise that the strike record of passenger services in recent years has been rather worse than the record of open-access passenger operators and indeed freight operators. Th

My Lords, I support all the amendments in this group. As noble Lords know, I am a former chairman of the Rail Freight Group. Some of the examples that the noble Lord, Lord Lansley, just mentioned have

Will a definition of what a heritage railway service is be included?

My Lords, I will speak briefly, first to Amendment 101A in the name of the noble Baroness, Lady Grey-Thompson. She is absolutely right about quite a long list of things that need doing. The timescale