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The Midland Main Line (MML), a major railway line in the United Kingdom, has been undergoing various upgrades since 2015. [1] The current programme of upgrades began in 2012, although electrification was proposed a number of times previously. [2]
The Midland Main Line is undergoing a major upgrade of new digital signalling and full line electrification from London to Sheffield. [3] High Speed 2 was planned to branch onto the Midland Main Line at East Midlands Parkway railway station .
Electrification work was to be "paused" on the Trans-Pennine route between York and Manchester and on the Midland main line between Bedford and Sheffield. Electrification of the Great Western main line would go ahead but the status of the Reading-Newbury and Didcot-Oxford sections was unclear.
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Electrification and capacity enhancement of the F2N project requires electrification of the Midland Main Line (MML) in the Leicester area. The MML electrification and modernisation project has been off-and-on for decades.
The plan gives full digital signal upgrades to the Midland Main Line and East Coast Main Line (ECML), with the electrification of the Midland Main Line to Derby, Nottingham and Sheffield. [38] The ECML will have 140 mph (230 km/h) operation in some sections. Newcastle, Leeds and Sheffield will use these lines to London instead of HS2.
Services at the southern end of the Midland Main Line between St Albans and London St Pancras were affected by a fault with the signalling system. Christmas engineering work problems cause misery ...
This included full Midland Main Line electrification. On 21 December 2021 it was announced that work would start immediately on electrification of the section between Kettering and Market Harborough. [21] [22] [23] Grant Shapps claimed this work was proof the IRP was being implemented quickly but was met with ridicule. [24]