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Commons · Question 3326 · Tabled 20 May 2026 · Department for Transport · Official record

Answered 4 Jun 2026

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Asked by Jerome Mayhew

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the Answer of 24 March 2026 to Question 120876, for each Northern Trains route in each of the last 18 months, how many services were operated with fewer carriages than planned; and what percen

Answer

Answered by Keir Mather, 4 Jun 2026

DFT Operator expects operators to provide appropriate capacity in response to expected demand and holds operators to account for short -formed services. While DFT Operator generally monitors levels of short formation at an operator level every four weeks,...