Too many Solihull West and Shirley residents face overcrowded trains when using the Chiltern Mainline. I asked the Minister what the Government will specifically do to tackle this.

This week I and colleagues with constituencies across the Chiltern Railways network wrote to the Transport Secretary to reemphasise the urgent need for Government approval of Chiltern’s fleet upgrade.

Chiltern Railways on verge of agreeing deal to take ex-TransPennine Express Mk 5s railmagazine.com/news/fleet/202…

Announced yesterday that Chiltern Railways will migrate to public ownership 2nd half of next year. gov.uk/government/new… Just don't expect that day to day much change, the new trains will already being rolled out, hopefully capacity improving, politicians will take the credit.

Average rolling stock age up by 0.1 years to 16.7 years. Changes to Merseyrail's stock saw the largest annual decrease in average age - 9.8 years to 4.0. Chiltern has the oldest fleet at 32 years. More: dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/inf… Blog on rolling stock age: orr.gov.uk/search-news/pa…