BR to spend 257m pounds on South East improvements
- Title
- BR to spend 257m pounds on South East improvements
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 31 Aug 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:03:41
- Description
- Margaret Shiels reports on a statement by Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson announcing the biggest investment programme for British Rail’s Network SouthEast in thirty years. 400 new coaches will be built at a cost of nearly £300million. Network South East also plans to spend a further £120million on other improvement works. Includes interviews with Cecil Parkinson; Chris Green, director of Network South East who says passengers will have to pay higher fares to meet improvement costs.
- Contributors
- Chris Green; Cecil Parkinson; Margaret Shiels
- Keywords
- Government; British Rail; Railway transport; Finance; Trains; Fares; Railway companies; Railway rolling stock; Network SouthEast; Railway equipment; Railway infrastructure
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