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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