Daniel Kawczynski – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Transport

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Daniel Kawczynski on 2015-10-28.

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the cost of line speed upgrade on the railway line between Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton.

Claire Perry

Network Rail and the relevant train operators terminated a line speed improvement assessment in 2014. Detailed work had identified an estimated cost of up to £12.45m to clear structures for higher speed. With these costs the scheme was poor value, having a benefit cost ratio of less than 1.0. No assessment has been made since then.