HC Deb 17 October 1990 vol 177 cc824-5W
Mr. Dalyell

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he has any plans to meet British Rail to discuss the shelving of the £750 million rail scheme for the Glasgow-London route; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Freeman

British Rail has not shelved its scheme for investment in the west coast main line from London to Glasgow, and currently plans for the first of the new trains to come into operation in the mid-1990s.