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Railway electrification in the UK has been a stop-start or boom-bust cycle since electrification began. The initial boom was under the 1955 modernisation plan. There was a flurry of activity in the 1980s and early 1990s but this came to a halt in the run up to privatisation and then continued in the 2000s, and also the Great Recession intervened.
British Railways chose this as the national standard for future electrification projects outside of the third rail area in 1956. Following this, a number of lines that were originally electrified at a different voltage were converted, and a number of lines have been newly electrified with this system.
In 1981 the British Railways Board published a final document on railway electrification that included the Midland Main Line as high priority. [11] In the intervening years priority was put on other projects such as schemes in Anglia and the East Coast Main Line. [12] Then in the 1990s, British Rail was privatised followed by a change in ...
When the announcement was made in July 2009 to electrify the Great Western (along with the Liverpool-Manchester line), it represented the first big rail electrification project in the UK for 20 years. [10] The South Wales Main Line section of the GWML was set to be the first electrified cross-country railway line in Wales.
The principal recommendation was further electrification of 13,000 km (single track kilometres) of UK railways. [103] The map with principal and core lines on page 79 figure 14 showed F2N as a core project to achieve freight decarbonisation. [ 104 ]
In July 2019, the final report of the rail decarbonisation project was published by the group. [10] 2012 Department for Transport plans for UK rail electrification by 2019 including MML electrification and Electric Spine (yellow/green). Newly installed overhead electrification into Manchester Victoria station, in October 2015
[13] [14] The whole £9–11.5 billion programme has been defined as phase one of Northern Powerhouse Rail, and is claimed to be the biggest infrastructure project in the UK. [15] It consists of a succession of sub-projects [ 16 ] designed to give incremental benefits to rail users over a period of time, with an anticipated overall completion ...
CGI impression of the train offered by Agility Trains (2009). The preferred bidder, Agility Trains, offered a design named the Hitachi Super Express Train.. Agility Trains claimed that the proposed designs included a reduction in weight of the train of 15–40% per seat (86 tonnes less in total than an Intercity 125), and reduction in fuel consumption of up to 15%, using a hybrid traction ...