To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the number of railway stations that opened (a) nationally and (b) in Shropshire for each year since 1979. [36473]

The table gives the number of railway stations that the British Railways Board opened between 1979 and 1993. None were in Shropshire. Since 1994, the opening of new stations has been the responsibility of Railtrack. I understand that a total of 30 stations have opened in the last four years, but that Railtrack have no central record of station openings by year or by region.