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Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Transport – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 11 October 2018.

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Photo of Chris Grayling Chris Grayling The Secretary of State for Transport 12:00, 11 October 2018

As the hon. Lady will be aware, Northern rail’s performance has improved markedly since the difficult days in June and July. It is now running more services than it did prior to the timetable change. As for what we will do, we will replace every train with a newer and more reliable train, and we will get rid of all the old Pacer trains that run into and out of Liverpool which, frankly, should have gone to the scrapyard years ago. I hope that she will welcome the investment we have put into Liverpool Lime Street station. I am going there next week to see the long overdue work that has been done to upgrade that station.