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Some good news (for the North):
Keir Starmer has committed £415m of 'new money' to the ongoing electricfcation & improvement of inter-city rail services around the North...
But, as if he admits, this is a £10bn project & so today's announcement is more of a small continuity payment than a massive shift in speed of completion of a project already running a decade late... but at least Rachel Reeves has not actually cut it back (yet).
#North #railways #politics
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jgjgvzl13o
@ChrisMayLA6
Which is to say he's commited 4.6% of the cost of the new road link to be built between North Kent and South Essex and it creates no extra capacity just keeps the existing Victorian infrastructure going (which is no bad thing in itself but not exactly inspiring).
@ChrisMayLA6 "I gave someone on the street a pound today, congratulate me for my charitable works"
Hopefully it can't be taken back.
@ChrisMayLA6
I like the work going on with trains with a battery that can take them between two powered sectors of rail.
There might be a minimum number of powered sectors which would effectively electrify a line. One could build outward from those to eventually not need the battery trains.
@ChrisMayLA6 There's actually a lot to be said for doing it in bits so that they don't create yet more supply shortages and pricing bubbles.
@ChrisMayLA6 We’ll take anything up here.
@ChrisMayLA6 At the moment £2-2.5 million pounds a mile to electrify ignoring cost of new electric trains.
Well, that money's not going for then.....
@ChrisMayLA6 the Europeans do it for a lot less. The gantries in UK heavily over engineered thanks to the bureaucrats and cheaper third rail is banned as it has been unsafe for over 100 years