Department for Transport written question – answered at on 20 April 2026.
Shivani Raja
Conservative, Leicester East
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 25 March 2026 to Question 122594, when she expects trains for the first EWR services between Oxford and Milton Keynes to have been sufficiently fully tested for passenger services to commence.
Keir Mather
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
Chiltern subleases the trains that will be used on East West Rail from West Midlands Trains. The operator continues to work jointly with the train owner and the industry supply chain on the schedule for the final modifications which are expected to be delivered and tested imminently.
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