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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 ...
Northern Ireland public transport provider Translink has been awarded £3.3 million for a study on electrifying the railway. Rail electrification among projects awarded funding to boost ...
2.1 In connection with the possible electrification of the Harrogate Line. ... In other projects Wikidata item; ... This page lists proposed railway stations 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.
A Network Rail spokesperson said: “Any decision on future electrification of the lines between Bristol Parkway – Bristol Temple Meads and Chippenham – Bristol Temple Meads would be made by ...
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 ]