Railways: Electrification
(asked on 19th January 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government which rail electrification projects in England were agreed between 2010 and 2015; and which (1) have been completed, and (2) have not gone ahead.
The table below includes electrification schemes in the 2012 High Level Output Specification and schemes considered by Sir Peter Hendy's re-planning of Network Rail’s investment programme. It also includes Network Rail’s assessment of whether these schemes have been completed.
Scheme | Completed |
Gospel Oak to Barking Electrification | Yes |
North of England Programmes/Northern Hub - North West Electrification | Yes |
Walsall to Rugeley Trent Valley Electrification | Yes |
MML Programme – Electrification Key Output 1 (Bedford to Kettering/Corby) | Yes |
Bromsgrove Electrification | Yes |
Great Western Electrification Programme |
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- Maidenhead to Didcot | Yes |
- Didcot to Wootton Bassett Junction | Yes |
- Reading to Newbury | Yes |
- Wootton Bassett Junction to Bristol Parkway | Yes |
- Bristol Parkway to Cardiff | Yes |
- Wootton Bassett Junction to Bristol Temple Meads | No |
- Didcot to Oxford | No |
- Filton Bank | No |
Lostock Junction to Wigan North Western Electrification | No |
MML Programme – Electrification Phase 2 (Kettering to Nottingham and Sheffield via Derby) | No |
Acton (GWML) to Willesden (WCML) Electrification | No |
- Basingstoke – Southampton Central (third rail conversion to OLE) | No |
- Leamington Spa to Coventry Electrification and Capacity | No |
- Oxford to Bletchley Electrification | No |
- Oxford to Leamington and Coventry to Nuneaton Electrification | No |
- Sheffield to ECML electrification | No |
- Southcote Junction to Basingstoke Electrification | No |
North trans-Pennine line electrification (Manchester Victoria and Guide Bridge – Huddersfield – Leeds – Colton Jnc) | No |
Oxenholme to Windermere Electrification | No |
Selby to Hull electrification | No |
Thames Valley Branch Lines | No |