Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 905592

East Coast Main Line: Standards

Tabled: 4 September 2025
Answered: 11 September 2025
Named Day

Question

Mary Kelly Foy

LabourCity of Durham

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to improve rail services on the East Coast Main Line.

Answer

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 th...

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