May I take my hon. Friend slightly closer to home, not perhaps in his own constituency, but alongside? Those people who seek to commute from Rugby, Coventry, Birmingham International and intermediate stations into Birmingham find that their daily journey is delayed by the fact that this line, which is two-track only and which can only be two-track, has express trains, local trains, intermediate trains to Northampton and even some freight trains on it. It is chaotic and jammed all the time. HS2 takes off the express trains and gives those people a better commute into Birmingham. Is that not something that the west midlands should champion?
High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Lord Grayling
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 30 January 2018.
It occurred during Debate on bills on High Speed Rail (West Midlands - Crewe) Bill.
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