Rail Franchising: Public Sector

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 12 January 2017.

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Photo of Chris Grayling Chris Grayling The Secretary of State for Transport 12:00, 12 January 2017

We are always happy to talk to my hon. Friend, who remains a doughty champion of his Constituency, but he is right to make the point that if we turned the clock back 30 or 40 years to the days of British Rail, the debate in the House today would be about line closures, station closures and a reduction in services. Today, the issues are overcrowding due to numbers rising so fast, new stations, improved facilities and new trains. That is the difference between the policies we have followed and the policies Labour Members want to follow.

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