I, too, beg leave to present a petition to the House of Commons. It states:

The petition of the commuting public of Bromsgrove declares that the train platform at Bromsgrove railway station is in urgent need of lengthening; that demand for commuting down to Worcester or into Birmingham from Bromsgrove has rapidly increased over recent years; that presently too few trains stop in peak hours to give commuters any real choice of services; that those which do stop are appallingly overcrowded as longer trains are forbidden from stopping due to the length of the platform; and draws attention to the recently published west midlands route utilisation study, which put the lengthening of the platform at Bromsgrove station as the top priority for rail infrastructure improvements in the entire region.

The Petitioners therefore request the House of Commons to call on the Department for Transport to now instruct Network Rail to start work on developing a scheme to deliver platform lengthening at Bromsgrove station so that commuters can look forward to a rapidly improved service.

And the Petitioners remain, etc.

To lie upon the Table.