Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Alan Duncan (Conservative), on Wednesday, 16 November 2005, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 39 members in total.

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CLOSURE OF THE ASFORDBY HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY TEST TRACK

That this House condemns the decision by the Department for Transport to allow the closure of the Asfordby Railway test track; notes that the loss of the UK's only high speed rail test track is a huge blow to the United Kingdom's rail industry, as future high speed trains will now have to be developed and tested abroad; notes that the loss of the facility will mean that new trains will either have to be tested on the already congested rail network or have to enter service without being fully tested, therefore putting passenger safety at risk; and further notes that the ??1.8 million a year required to keep the track open is a fraction of the ??6.5 billion in subsidy that the railways will receive this year.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1044 

Session

2005-06

Other sponsors

Richard Younger-Ross

Bob Spink

Mike Hancock

Jeremy Corbyn

Iris Robinson

Subjects

Closures Railway track Testing

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk