HC Deb 12 March 1999 vol 327 cc384-5W
Mr. Maclean

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will set out the arrangements agreed between Sustrans and the Eden Valley Railway Company as a condition of the sale of the Warcop to Appleby line. [76184]

Dr. Reid

The transfer to Sustrans of the Warcop to Appleby line was subject, as part of the Agreement with the British Railways Board, to an undertaking by Sustrans that it would reach an agreement with Eden Council and the Eden Valley Railway Trust for retention of the track and site sharing.

Mr. Maclean

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list all the bids made to purchase the Warcop to Appleby railway line. [76185]

Dr. Reid

No. Bids received by the British Railways Board for its land are commercially confidential.