Railways: Electrification

(asked on 29th November 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many miles of railway was electrification completed in each calendar year since 1997.


Answered by
Chris Heaton-Harris Portrait
Chris Heaton-Harris
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
This question was answered on 3rd December 2021

The Office of Rail and Road publishes information about delivered electrification, the relevant information for Great Britain is shown below.

Financial year

New electrification projects track miles

1997-98

0

1998-99

0

1999-00

0

2000-01

0

2001-02

0

2002-03

0

2003-04

14

2004-05

24

2005-06

3

2006-07

0

2007-08

0

2008-09

22

2009-10

0

2010-11

66

2011-12

0

2012-13

6

2013-14

38

2014-15

110

2015-16

4

2016-17

0

2017-18

181

2018-19

549

2019-20

156

2020-21

111

This information has been extracted from Table 6320 on the ORR’s data portal published here: https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/infrastructure-and-emissions/rail-infrastructure-and-assets/table-6320-infrastructure-on-the-mainline/.

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