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Maidstone Line: Trains

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what investment her Department has planned to enable 12 carriage trains on the Maidstone East line.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
12 Mar 2026
Target answer date
16 Mar 2026
Answer
19 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 12 Mar 2026

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what investment her Department has planned to enable 12 carriage trains on the Maidstone East line.

  2. 16 Mar 2026

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Mar 2026

    Answer published

    Southeastern (SET) have plans to improve services, increase capacity and reduce crowding to/from Maidstone East from May 2026. These include the reintroduction of Mainline services to London Blackfriars at peak times from Maidstone East; additional servic...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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