Railways: Electrification
(asked on 25th January 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent progress his Department has made on its rail electrification programme.
This question was answered on 28th January 2016
The first ever electric trains are now running between Liverpool and Manchester, and Liverpool and Wigan, and the Farnworth tunnel is now open, further proof of this Government’s commitment to electrification – part of the biggest rail investment since Victorian times.