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 rail network have been electrified in England in each year since 2010.


Answered by
Chris Heaton-Harris Portrait
Chris Heaton-Harris
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
This question was answered on 1st October 2020

A total of 481 route miles of Great Britain’s rail network has been electrified since April 2010. A year by year breakdown of this from 2010 to 2019 is as follows:

Financial year

Total route miles of the GB rail network electrified

Variation on previous year

2009-2010

3255

2010-2011

3270

+15

2011-2012

3269

-1

2012-2013

3272

+3

2013-2014

3273

+1

2014-2015

3276

+3

2015-2016

3313

+37

2016-2017

3339

+26

2017-2018

3583

+244

2018-2019

3736

+153

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