HC Deb 17 January 1968 vol 756 cc576-7W
Mr. Eadie

asked the Minister of Transport to what extent the Beeching proposals have been amended in relation to Scotland since 1964; and if she will set out the details.

Mr. John Morris:

The information is as follows:

loss of suburban rail services in the Merseyside, West Midlands, Manchester and Tyneside areas, as estimated in her White Paper, to show how much of this figure relates to each of those areas.

Mr. Swingler:

The White Paper on Public Transport and Traffic (Cmnd. 3481) said that present suburban rail services in the main conurbations outside London are losing in total several millions a year. The difficulty in defining the boundaries of these conurbations means that we cannot give a precise breakdown of where the losses fall.

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