DfT still wants 18 trains on HS2

The House of Commons transport committee has asked HS2 minister Andrew Stevenson to explain why the Government is sceptical about cutting the number of trains on the London to West Midlands leg of HS2 from 18 to 14 an hour. 

The reduction was recommended by Doug Oakervee in his review of the project for Government (LTT 21 Feb). But Stevenson has since told the House of Commons transport committee he is sceptical about following that advice. 

Committee chairman Huw Merriman has written...

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