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Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Stratford)

EDM (Early Day Motion) 692A3: tabled on 28 March 1990

Tabled in the 1989-90 session.

This motion has been signed by 2 Members. It is an amendment to an existing motion.The tabling Member has subsequently withdrawn this motion.

As this motion is using historical data, we may not have the record of the original ordering, in which case signatories are listed alphabetically.

This motion has subsequently been withdrawn by the tabling Member.

This is an amendment to an existing motion

This motion was originally tabled by Gerald Bowden on 12 March 1990. This is amendment number 3.

View details of the original motion

Suggested amendment

Leave out from first 'to' to end and add 'ignore developer-led proposals to terminate trains from the centre of Paris and Brussels in a London suburb; believes not only that these proposals are quite ridiculous, but also that the developers' uncosted proposals for a tunnel connection from Stratford to central London, not included within the estimate of their costs, are thoroughly misleading; and further urges the British Rail Board to press the Secretary of State to divert to rail investment the ú1,250,000,000 or more earmarked for road construction which has now been cancelled by the Secretary of State, following public consultation on proposals emanating from his Department.'.

Original motion text

That this House urges British Rail to give full and thorough consideration to proposals for a Channel Tunnel Rail Link based on a junction at Stratford, and to enter into professional discussions with those proposing the Stratford alternative before presenting their Private Bill to Parliament for a decision.

The first 6 Members who have signed to support the motion are the sponsors. The primary sponsor is generally the person who tabled the motion and has responsibility for it. The date shown is when the Member signed the motion.

There are no withdrawn signatures for this amendment.