High Speed Upgrading Of The West Coast Main Line

EDM number 1192 in 1995-96, proposed by Eric Martlew on 17/07/1996.

That this House expresses its concern that the forthcoming franchise specification for the West Coast Main Line may fail to provide for the operation of high speed trains; notes that the modernisation and renewal of the West Coast Main Line will only restore the line to 1970s standards and is already costed and included within the base line Core Programme funded through existing and future track access payments; expresses dismay at the current lack of information about the costs, sources of funding and specification for any upgrade to provide for both high speed passenger and piggy back freight operations; further notes that the tender specification for the franchise is due out in October 1996; and, therefore, urges the Chairman of Railtrack, the Director of Passenger Rail Franchising and the Secretary of State for Transport to use their individual and collective endeavours to deliver an upgraded, high speed West Coast Main Line capable of providing journey times between London and Liverpool/Manchester of two hours and between London and Glasgow of four hours.

This motion has been signed by a total of 118 MPs.

MP	Date	Constituency	Party	Type
Eric Martlew	17/07/1996	Carlisle		Proposed
Angela Eagle	17/07/1996	Wallasey		Signed
Gwyneth Dunwoody	17/07/1996	Crewe & Nantwich		Signed
Den Dover	17/07/1996	Chorley		Signed
Donald Dixon	17/07/1996	Jarrow		Signed
Stephen Day	17/07/1996	Cheadle		Signed
Terry Davis	17/07/1996	Birmingham, Hodge Hill		Signed
Chris Davies	17/07/1996	Littleborough and Saddleworth		Signed
Ian Davidson	17/07/1996	Glasgow, Govan		Signed
Jim Cunningham	17/07/1996	Coventry South East		Signed
Patrick Cormack	17/07/1996	South Staffordshire		Signed
Frank Cook	17/07/1996	Stockton North		Signed
Ann Coffey	17/07/1996	Stockport		Signed
Dale Campbell-Savours	17/07/1996	Workington		Signed
James Callaghan	17/07/1996	Heywood & Middleton		Signed
Stephen Byers	17/07/1996	Wallsend		Signed
Kenneth Eastham	17/07/1996	Manchester, Blackley		Signed
John Evans	17/07/1996	St Helens North		Signed
David Young	17/07/1996	Bolton South East		Signed
Tony Worthington	17/07/1996	Clydebank & Milngavie		Signed
Audrey Wise	17/07/1996	Preston		Signed
Robert Wareing	17/07/1996	Liverpool, West Derby		Signed
Joan Walley	17/07/1996	Stoke-on-Trent North		Signed
Keith Vaz	17/07/1996	Leicester East		Signed
Paddy Tipping	17/07/1996	Sherwood		Signed
Jack Thompson	17/07/1996	Wansbeck		Signed
Gerry Steinberg	17/07/1996	Durham, City of		Signed
Joe Benton	17/07/1996	Bootle		Signed
Roy Beggs	17/07/1996	East Antrim		Signed
John Battle	17/07/1996	Leeds West		Signed
Janet Anderson	17/07/1996	Rossendale & Darwen		Signed
John Garrett	17/07/1996	Norwich South		Signed
Maria Fyfe	17/07/1996	Glasgow, Maryhill		Signed
Jeremy Bray	17/07/1996	Motherwell South		Signed
Keith Bradley	17/07/1996	Manchester, Withington		Signed
John Hutton	17/07/1996	Barrow & Furness		Signed
Doug Hoyle	17/07/1996	Warrington North		Signed
Jimmy Hood	17/07/1996	Clydesdale		Signed
John Home Robertson	17/07/1996	East Lothian		Signed
David Hinchliffe	17/07/1996	Wakefield		Signed
John Heppell	17/07/1996	Nottingham East		Signed
Peter Snape	17/07/1996	West Bromwich East		Signed
John Reid	17/07/1996	Motherwell North		Signed
Giles Radice	17/07/1996	North Durham		Signed
Ken Purchase	17/07/1996	Wolverhampton North East		Signed
Gordon Prentice	17/07/1996	Pendle		Signed
Bridget Prentice	17/07/1996	Lewisham East		Signed
Greg Pope	17/07/1996	Hyndburn		Signed
Peter Pike	17/07/1996	Burnley		Signed
Colin Pickthall	17/07/1996	West Lancashire		Signed
Glenda Jackson	17/07/1996	Hampstead & Highgate		Signed
Jon Owen Jones	17/07/1996	Cardiff Central		Signed
Stan Orme	17/07/1996	Salford East		Signed
Edward O'Hara	17/07/1996	Knowsley South		Signed
Estelle Morris	17/07/1996	Birmingham, Yardley		Signed
Alf Morris	17/07/1996	Manchester Wythenshawe		Signed
Elliot Morley	17/07/1996	Glanford and Scunthorpe		Signed
Rhodri Morgan	17/07/1996	Cardiff West		Signed
Austin Mitchell	17/07/1996	Great Grimsby		Signed
Michael Martin	17/07/1996	Glasgow, Springburn		Signed
John Marek	17/07/1996	Wrexham		Signed
Alan Keen	17/07/1996	Feltham & Heston		Signed
Jane Kennedy	17/07/1996	Liverpool Broadgreen		Signed
Peter Kilfoyle	17/07/1996	Liverpool, Walton		Signed
Terry Lewis	17/07/1996	Worsley		Signed
Tony Lloyd	17/07/1996	Stretford		Signed
Liz Lynne	17/07/1996	Rochdale		Signed
William McKelvey	18/07/1996	Kilmarnock & Loudoun		Signed
James Molyneaux	18/07/1996	Lagan Valley		Signed
Win Griffiths	18/07/1996	Bridgend		Signed
Hugh Bayley	18/07/1996	York, City of		Signed
John D Taylor	18/07/1996	Strangford		Signed
Nicholas Winterton	18/07/1996	Macclesfield		Signed
John McAllion	18/07/1996	Dundee East		Signed
David Knox	18/07/1996	Staffordshire Moorlands		Signed
Ernie Ross	18/07/1996	Dundee West		Signed
Martin Smyth	18/07/1996	Belfast South		Signed
Peter Hardy	18/07/1996	Wentworth		Signed
Keith Hill	18/07/1996	Streatham		Signed
Barry Jones	18/07/1996	Alyn & Deeside		Signed
Lynne Jones	18/07/1996	Birmingham, Selly Oak		Signed
Ken Livingstone	19/07/1996	Brent East		Signed
George Stevenson	22/07/1996	Stoke-on-Trent South		Signed
Harry Barnes	22/07/1996	North East Derbyshire		Signed
Bill Michie	22/07/1996	Sheffield, Heeley		Signed
Thomas McAvoy	22/07/1996	Glasgow, Rutherglen		Signed
Alan Howarth	22/07/1996	Stratford-on-Avon		Signed
Ann Winterton	23/07/1996	Congleton		Signed
Dennis Turner	23/07/1996	Wolverhampton South East		Signed
Malcolm Thornton	23/07/1996	Crosby		Signed
Tony Banks	23/07/1996	Newham North West		Signed
Norman Godman	23/07/1996	Greenock and Port Glasgow		Signed
Michael Connarty	23/07/1996	Falkirk East		Signed
Michael Clapham	23/07/1996	Barnsley West & Penistone		Signed
Ronnie Campbell	23/07/1996	Blyth Valley		Signed
Bill Olner	23/07/1996	Nuneaton		Signed
Eric Illsley	23/07/1996	Barnsley Central		Signed
Alex Salmond	23/07/1996	Banff & Buchan		Signed
Ian Pearson	23/07/1996	Dudley West		Signed
Robert Parry	23/07/1996	Liverpool, Riverside		Signed
Bill Cash	24/07/1996	Stafford		Signed
David Chidgey	24/07/1996	Eastleigh		Signed
Bill Etherington	24/07/1996	Sunderland North		Signed
John Gilbert	24/07/1996	Dudley East		Signed
Tony Wright	24/07/1996	Cannock and Burntwood		Signed
Hector Monro	24/07/1996	Dumfries		Signed
John Maxton	24/07/1996	Glasgow, Cathcart		Signed
David Marshall	24/07/1996	Glasgow, Shettleston		Signed
Martin Redmond	24/07/1996	Don Valley		Signed
William Ross	24/07/1996	East Londonderry		Signed
Warren Hawksley	24/07/1996	Halesowen and Stourbridge		Signed
Helen Jackson	24/07/1996	Sheffield, Hillsborough		Signed
Mark Lennox-Boyd	24/07/1996	Morecambe & Lunesdale		Signed
Roland Boyes	14/10/1996	Houghton and Washington		Signed
David Steel	14/10/1996	Tweeddale, Ettrick and Lauderdale		Signed
Peter Thurnham	14/10/1996	Bolton North East		Signed
Rachel Squire	16/10/1996	Dunfermline West		Signed
George Foulkes	16/10/1996	Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley		Signed

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