Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 114846

West Midlands Trains: Rolling Stock

Tabled: 23 February 2026
Answered: 3 March 2026

Question

Wendy Morton

ConservativeAldridge-Brownhills

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what safeguards are in place to help ensure that rolling stock currently allocated to services operated by West Midlands Trains remains allocated to those routes following transfer into public ownership; and wh

Answer

Keir Mather
The Department for Transport (DfT), and the Department’s Rail Operator (DFTO) currently have no plans to reallocate rolling stock in use by West Midlands Trains and, as part of the recent transfer into public ownership, all leases have been extended until...

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