tbtc
Veteran Member
I'm becoming convinced that "We need a rolling electrification scheme" is some sort of fundemental particle of RailUK threads - in that any thread on this website, left long enough, will eventually be reduced to that statement.
Of course it's very true that it would be a good idea, but would it really increase passenger numbers that much? I can't imagine so, especially not in the short term.
mods note - split from the part of this thread that was the most manageable!
Agreed.
Nobody is going to argue against a plan of rolling electrification , I don’t think anyone ought to be proud of the stop/start electrification we’ve had or the fact that “modern” EMUs are scrapped whilst Sprinters continue
BUT I wish they’d give more detail, e.g. how many miles would we need to wire a year? What’s your top five hundred miles to tackle?
If you want a rolling electrification program then does that mean abandoning most reopening projects, since you can only spend each pound one? Or should we have funded fewer rural routes?
We’ve had twenty years of Network Rail (in fact the Railtrack era was very short) so there’s nothing stopping it from happening, other than government funding; i just feel it’s a dodge/ deflect tactic, a kind of “oh, if it were up to me I’d simply have organised everything decades ago and not had to compromise and done everything with stable public funding and a cherry on top”
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