Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many miles of railway track were electrified in each region of England and Wales in each year since 2010.

The Office of Rail and Road publish railway infrastructure statistics, which contain the length of electrified route in Great Britain (including Scotland). The table below gives total electrified route length from 2009-10 to 2015-16.

Network Rail manage the infrastructure, but they geographically organise the network by ‘Routes’ rather than by region, therefore this information is not available by region.

Route and Track Miles of the rail network in Great Britain. Source: ORR

*Provisional.

The above table shows that 57 route miles were electrified between 2009-10 and 2015-16.

However, the figures above just show completed electrification works and so do not take account of the many more route miles which are in the process of being electrified. Various schemes ongoing across the country include:

o The 120 mile Great Western Main Line route between London and Cardiff (of which the 12 mile section from West Drayton to Maidenhead was recently turned on)

o 49 mile route from Blackpool North to Manchester Piccadilly

o Just under 17 miles route from Walsall to Rugeley Trent Valley-

o 13 mile route from Gospel Oak to Barking

o Just over 4 miles at Bromsgrove-

o 1 mile at the Orsdall Chord

All of the above is much more than the 10 miles electrified by Labour in 13 years.