The Department's March 2012 Command Paper Reforming our Railways: Putting the Customer First sets out the importance of establishing a more transparent picture of the railway industry's finances, to make those in charge of running services and managing the infrastructure more accountable to farepayers, taxpayers and
the wider public. As set out in that paper, the Department has published figures showing the amount of subsidy paid to each franchise, as well as an estimate of the proportion of fixed infrastructure costs that relate to them.
Detailed annual figures for train capacity and passenger usage are now published for eleven cities, the London data being expressed as individual stations. The Department publishes information on any extra peak capacity procured and, where the individual price is known, the cost of this capacity. Further peak capacity has been specified for the years 2014-2019.
Philip Rutnam
Permanent Secretary
27 June 2013
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