Transport written question – answered at on 14 January 2008.
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment has been made of the potential extent of disruption of long-distance train services from Paddington to South Wales arising from the (a) construction and (b) operation of Crossrail.
The Crossrail works are being planned to minimise disruption to existing railway services during construction. The detailed planning of these works, which Network Rail envisages undertaking, will be managed through the normal industry processes nearer to the start of construction. The Crossrail Environmental Statement (ES) contains an assessment of the expected disruption to services on the Great Western Main Line (http://billdocuments.crossrail.co.uk; ES Volume 1, 2.5.19 and Volume 8a, 6.15-6.16).
Crossrail services will subsume most of the suburban services that use the "slow" lines between Maidenhead and Paddington. Since the Welsh services will continue to use the "fast" lines, no changes are proposed to services to Wales as a result of Crossrail during normal operations (ES, Volume 1, 2.4.9).
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