Transport written question – answered at on 10 January 2012.
Andrew Love
Labour, Edmonton
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what assessment she has made of the potential effects of reduction in the fleet size arising from the awarding of the Greater Anglia franchise on train services on the (a) London Liverpool Street to Enfield Town line and (b) Brimsdown to London King's Cross line; and if she will make a statement.
Theresa Villiers
The Minister of State, Department for Transport
Abellio, the new operator of the Greater Anglia franchise, presented plans in its bid for the franchise to operate the required train service through the daily deployment of 232 four-car electric multiple units (EMUs) out of a total fleet size of 251 units. The incumbent operator deploys 236 out of a fleet of 260 units to run the same train service.
Abellio has identified a small number of individual train services that are operating today with capacity significantly in excess of the forecast passenger loadings and on which the number of carriages can therefore be reduced. Some of these services are in the 'West Anglia Inner' service group.
This is exactly the sort of efficiency initiative that is needed to drive down the cost of operation of our railway network.
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