Railways: Electrification
(asked on 25th June 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what proportion of the UK rail network is electrified.
This question was answered on 3rd July 2019
The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) publishes data on the electrified rail route operated by Network Rail in Great Britain.
The length of Network Rail operated electrified route (so excluding the High Speed 1 line) in Great Britain was 5,766 kilometres in 2017-18. This represents 36% of the total Network Rail mainline railway route.
This data is available at the following link:
https://dataportal.orr.gov.uk/displayreport/report/html/c35e0c28-324f-4168-81b9-be197963f251