Lord Berkeley (Lab)

My Lords, I am grateful to my noble friend for his comments, but do I understand from what he has just said that if there has been a major investment in infrastructure by GBR, then GBR passenger train

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