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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.
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 ...
Felixstowe is the UK's busiest container port [7] which handles in the region of 40 to 50% of Britain's container traffic trade. [8] [9] In 2017, it was ranked at 43rd busiest container port in the world and 8th in Europe, with an estimated traffic of 3.85 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). [10]
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 25 kV AC network has continued to expand slowly, and large areas of the country outside London are not electrified. In 2007, the government's preferred option was to use diesel trains running on biodiesel, its White Paper Delivering a Sustainable Railway, [6] ruling out large-scale railway electrification for the following five years.
[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 ...
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
2012 Department for Transport plans for UK rail electrification showing Electric Spine in yellow/green. The "Electric Spine" was the name for part of a, now largely cancelled, [1] rolling programme of railway electrification projects [2] in England initially estimated to cost £800 million, [3] [4] but later thought to cost close to £3 billion. [1]