Railways: Electrification

(asked on 21st June 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the cost to fully electrify the UK rail network.


Answered by
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Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 27th June 2019

The Rail Network enhancements pipeline (RNEP) makes clear that all rail enhancements must be led by the needs that they are fulfilling rather than the methods by which they propose to fulfil them.

We do not, therefore, expect proposals for new enhancements to begin with a pre-defined solution or input, such as electrification, but rather to set out the case for making an intervention to support a desired outcome.

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