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Why no tilt?

JACK Brereton, the Stoke-on-Trent South MP, wanted to know what information the Department ofTransport (DfT) holds on any issues identified during the testing of new Hitachi AT300 rolling stock to replace‘Voyagers’on Avanti West Coast services, and whether an assessment was made of the potential effect of the lack of tilt mechanism for those trains on maintaining safe operation around bends at speed, journey times and rail timetables. The

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