LNW-GW Joint
Veteran Member
Piecing together the announcements at the Tory conference, I think the following have been authorised, detailed in the following paper.
It's impossible to extract a simple paragraph, there are so many separate but important points and decisions made.
North Wales Main Line - presumably Warrington (Acton Grange)/Crewe-Chester-Holyhead (16+21+84=121 miles, plus Llandudno branch 3 miles) - total 124 miles.
(the Halton curve will also need wiring to get EMUs to Liverpool)
Hope Valley line: Dore-Chinley-Hazel Grove (presuming MML wiring covers Derby-Sheffield) - 24 miles. Would you leave out diesel lines via Romiley - another 16 miles?
Sheffield-Leeds (Moorthorpe) - 16 miles
Leeds (Micklefield)-Selby-Hull (presuming TRU picks up Leeds-Micklefield) - 42 miles. Micklefield-Selby is a re-authorisation after truncation of original CP5 scheme).
Sheffield (Swinton)-Doncaster-Goole-Gilberdyke - about 33 miles
Chippenham-Bath-Bristol TM-Filton (re-authorised after being paused in 2015) - 35 miles. Nothing said about the missing Didcot-Oxford line, or Cardiff-Swansea
Further electrification is implied in the commitments to Bradford for new links to Huddersfield and Manchester.
So that's close on 300 route miles of wiring, some of it quite complex.
And that presumes wiring of MML to Sheffield, and TRU Manchester-York are givens.
Rolling this lot out would reinforce Northern's plan to acquire bi-modes capable of EMU conversion.
TfW will need bi-modes to make sense of the North Wales electrification, as well as EMUs for Holyhead/Llandudno-Manchester/Crewe services.
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How long will it take to get these projects into a funded rollout plan?
Which project will be the first to test the firmness of Rishi's promises?
I would guess it might take a year or so for the detail to emerge. - just in time for the next general election
ORR and Network Rail somehow have to work this into the context of the CP7 budget now in its final stages of approval, not to mention the deletion of much HS2-related work.
It's impossible to extract a simple paragraph, there are so many separate but important points and decisions made.
North Wales Main Line - presumably Warrington (Acton Grange)/Crewe-Chester-Holyhead (16+21+84=121 miles, plus Llandudno branch 3 miles) - total 124 miles.
(the Halton curve will also need wiring to get EMUs to Liverpool)
Hope Valley line: Dore-Chinley-Hazel Grove (presuming MML wiring covers Derby-Sheffield) - 24 miles. Would you leave out diesel lines via Romiley - another 16 miles?
Sheffield-Leeds (Moorthorpe) - 16 miles
Leeds (Micklefield)-Selby-Hull (presuming TRU picks up Leeds-Micklefield) - 42 miles. Micklefield-Selby is a re-authorisation after truncation of original CP5 scheme).
Sheffield (Swinton)-Doncaster-Goole-Gilberdyke - about 33 miles
Chippenham-Bath-Bristol TM-Filton (re-authorised after being paused in 2015) - 35 miles. Nothing said about the missing Didcot-Oxford line, or Cardiff-Swansea
Further electrification is implied in the commitments to Bradford for new links to Huddersfield and Manchester.
So that's close on 300 route miles of wiring, some of it quite complex.
And that presumes wiring of MML to Sheffield, and TRU Manchester-York are givens.
Rolling this lot out would reinforce Northern's plan to acquire bi-modes capable of EMU conversion.
TfW will need bi-modes to make sense of the North Wales electrification, as well as EMUs for Holyhead/Llandudno-Manchester/Crewe services.
.
How long will it take to get these projects into a funded rollout plan?
Which project will be the first to test the firmness of Rishi's promises?
I would guess it might take a year or so for the detail to emerge. - just in time for the next general election
ORR and Network Rail somehow have to work this into the context of the CP7 budget now in its final stages of approval, not to mention the deletion of much HS2-related work.