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Lord Beith (LD)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 20 January 2026

Debate

Railways: East Coast Main Line

Contribution

My Lords, does the Minister realise that, since the new timetable was introduced on the east coast main line, there has been no room to deal with delays such as those caused by broken rails, signal failures and points failures, none of which can be blamed on LNER as they are all the responsibility of Network Rail. Are lessons going to be learned about the introduction of this timetable, which took several years to bring about but reduced services from stations such as Berwick and Durham and left real problems coping with delays?

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