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Railways: Greater Manchester

Commons · Question 61911 · Tabled 23 Jun 2025 · Department for Transport · Official record

Answered 1 Jul 2025

Question

Asked by Navendu Mishra

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the (a) adequacy and (b) frequency of Northern Rail services in (i) Stockport constituency and (ii) across Greater Manchester on Sundays.

Answer

Answered by Simon Lightwood, 1 Jul 2025

Northern has acknowledged to passengers and the Government that its current performance is not acceptable. The organisation has developed and is beginning to implement a performance improvement programme to create the modern, flexible organisation which c...