Question follow-through · 49446
Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern Rail Franchise
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to end the Great Northern franchise at the core term expiry date.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 30 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 12 May 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to end the Great Northern franchise at the core term expiry date.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 May 2025
Answer published
Great Northern services are operated by Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR), whose core term expiry date was 1 April 2025. The date on which GTR’s franchise will end, and its services transfer to public ownership, has not yet been decided. The Rail Minister an...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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