HC Deb 11 January 1993 vol 216 cc517-8W
Mr. Rowe

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will name the parliamentary constituencies in Greater London through which channel tunnel rail freight services will run when the tunnel opens.

Mr. Freeman

British Rail expects channel tunnel freight services to run on railway lines in the following Greater London parliamentary constituencies:

Battersea, Beckenham, Brent East, Brent North, Brent South, Chelsea, Chislehurst, Croydon Central, Croydon North East, Croydon North West, Croydon South, Dulwich, Ealing Acton, Ealing North, Ealing Southall, Enfield North, Enfield Southgate, Fulham, Hackney South and Shoreditch, Hammersmith, Hampstead and

Contracts let in 1992
Scheme Contractor £
A46 Leicester Western bypass AMEC/Alfred McAlpine joint venture 35,981,698
A423 Benson roundabout improvement Amey Construction Ltd. 253,857
A650 Park Road, Bingley Amey Construction Ltd. 4,054,039
A27 Crossbush bypass Associated Asphalt Co. Ltd. 2,951,714
M5 Junction 27 hardshoulders Associated Asphalt Co. Ltd. 721,702
A1 Marshall Meadows dualling Balfour Beatty Ltd. 2,244,952
A1 Brownieside improvement Balfour Beatty Ltd. 3,174,832
A638 Doncaster North Bridge relief road Birse Construction Ltd. 5,594,403
A568 Widnes Eastern bypass (north section) Birse Construction Ltd. 14,557,435
A16 Spalding to Sutterton Birse Construction Ltd. 22,639,443
A42 construction of 18 laybys Charles Gregory (Civil Engineering) Ltd. 1,239,028
A339 Basingstoke bypass Costain Building & Civil Engineering Ltd. 8,597,625
M42 Junction 6 improvement Costain Building & Civil Engineering Ltd. 252,031

Highgate, Harrow East, Harrow West, Hayes and Harlington, Holborn and St. Pancras, Hornsey and Wood Green, Islington North, Islington South and Finsbury, Kensington, Lewisham Deptford, Lewisham East, Lewisham West, Newham North West, Norwood, Orpington, Peckham, Streatham, Tooting, Tottenham, Uxbridge, Vauxhall.

13. Mr. Elletson

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport when he expects British Rail to receive for trialling on rails in Great Britain a pre-production series channel tunnel passenger service train.

Mr. Freeman

I understand from British Rail that it hopes to begin trials in June 1993.