Skip to main content

Cumbrian Coast Line

Question for Department for Transport

UIN 194125, tabled on 21 November 2018

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will assess the potential effect on passengers of the RMT Union's Saturday strikes on the Cumbrian Coast Line service.

Answered on

29 November 2018

I share the frustrations of passengers on Northern whose journeys have been repeatedly disrupted by the actions of the RMT. This dispute is not about safety – the independent rail regulator has said driver controlled doors on trains are safe.