Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Rob Marris (Labour), on Monday, 14 November 2005, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 34 members in total.

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CLOSURE OF THE ASFORDBY RAILWAY TEST TRACK

That this House is surprised that the Government is not buying the United Kingdom's only railway test track, situated at Asfordby in the Midlands, which is used for testing new engines and rolling stock for training, meaning that this facility will be closed on 31st January 2006 and the rails then removed, thereby leaving the United Kingdom without any non-main line rail test track, and in the regrettable position of having to hire such track overseas, which cannot be regarded as offering encouragement for UK development of the high-technology trains and rolling stock needed in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1017 

Session

2005-06

Other sponsors

Lynne Jones

Graham Stringer

Kelvin Hopkins

Jeremy Corbyn

Gregory Campbell

Subjects

Closures Railway track Testing

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk