RAILWAYS: HIGH SPEED RAIL

28 January 2013: Earl Attlee repeated a Statement made by the Secretary of State for Transport.
during the debate....
Lord Faulkner of Worcester: My Lords, I offer my wholehearted support for the Statement and the Government's strategy on High Speed 2.
..... With reference to what the Minister said about high-speed trains running north on conventional railways, particularly on the west coast main line, can he give an assurance that signalling and other infrastructure on the west coast main line will be sufficiently upgraded to allow these trains to run - obviously not at 300 kilometres an hour but certainly closer to a line speed of perhaps 140 or 150 miles an hour?
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