Railways: Electrification

(asked on 24th September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many miles of the UK rail network is electrified.


Answered by
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Chris Heaton-Harris
This question was answered on 1st October 2020

3,736 miles of the mainline railway route in Great Britain (GB) is electrified. This is 38% of all route miles on the GB rail network.

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