Rail Transport and Economic Growth

Part of Transport – in the House of Commons at on 12 February 2026.

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Photo of Ruth Cadbury Ruth Cadbury Chair, Transport Committee, Chair, Transport Committee

On Tuesday, the Committee published, as well as the report on the Railways Bill, a report called “Rail investment pipelines: ending boom and bust”, which includes discussion of the rolling stock that we need to run our trains. We found a pattern of boom and bust in investment decisions. No strategy means fluctuating orders, and that threatens small and medium-sized enterprise viability in the UK supply chain. When will the Government publish the promised long-term rolling stock investment strategy?