Railways: Electrification
(asked on 15th July 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they plan to fund and start the electrification of the Midland Main Line TransPennine rail line before funding and starting Crossrail 2.
This question was answered on 23rd July 2015
On 25th June the Secretary of State for Transport announced that work on Midland Main Line electrification was being paused pending Sir Peter Hendy’s proposals this autumn on re-planning the Control Period 5 programme. It would be premature to speculate now on the outcome of the re-plan.