Committee holds fourth evidence session on investing in the railway

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Witnesses

Monday 27 October, the Wilson Room, Portcullis House

4.05 pm

• Isabel Dedring, Deputy Mayor of London, Greater London Authority
• Tracey Lee, Chief Executive Officer, Plymouth City Council and Lead Chief Executive Officer for the Peninsula Rail Task Force
• Mark Pendlington, Chairman, New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership

5.00 pm

• Malcolm Brown, Chief Executive Officer, Angel Trains
• Paul Francis, Managing Director, Porterbrook
• Mary Kenny, Chief Executive Officer, Eversholt Rail Group

This is the fourth evidence session in the Transport Committee’s Investing in the railway inquiry, which aims to scrutinise the impact and deliverability of Network Rail’s £38 billion investment programme over the next five years (Control Period 5) and to identify priorities for investment after 2019.

The first panel in this session will focus on the regional balance of investment in the railway. The Committee will hear from representatives from the Peninsula Rail Task Force, New Anglia Local Enterprise Partnership, and from the Deputy Mayor (Transport) for London. In the second half of the session the Committee will take evidence from the three major rolling stock operating companies—Angel Trains, Porterbrook and Eversholt Rail Group—about the capacity and quality of rolling stock on the rail network, and the leasing of rolling stock by the Train Operating Companies. 

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