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The new plan shows a current time from London to Liverpool as being 132 minutes. The HS3 plan quoted 94 minutes, and under IRP 92 minutes, a small improvement. [41] The plan states that other schemes such as further electrification to Hull will depend on the results of work on how best to take HS3 services to Leeds. [26]
The plan to upgrade the rolling stock on the Great Western was included in the IEP announced in 2007, a Department for Transport (DfT) led initiative to replace the ageing fleet of InterCity 125 and InterCity 225 train sets then in use on much of the UK rail network.
The line from Kettering to Corby was to be doubled, and indeed Network Rail began work in June 2015. [24] The Enhancements plan update of January 2016 showed the project on target. [25] On 27 July 2017, a further briefing paper was issued and the Midland Main Line had a section of its own. [26]
As a response to the cost-of-living crisis, the government approved a 5.9% rise in rail fares from 5 March 2023, which was 6.4 percentage points below the RPI inflation rate in July 2022 which is normally used to calculate fare increases. [46] In July 2023, the government announced plans to close the majority of ticket offices.
However, in November 2021 the Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands was published which removed all of the new line in Yorkshire, from the plan. [ 10 ] : 7 In March 2015, the Chancellor George Osborne announced there would be an additional rolling programme of improvement and electrification to Hull .
The UK’s competition watchdog has said it will give the green light to a 1.7 billion euro (£1.5 billion) takeover of Thales’s rail infrastructure after buyer Hitachi agreed to sell off its ...
Railway electrification in the UK has been a stop-start or boom-bust cycle since electrification began. The initial boom was under the 1955 modernisation plan. There was a flurry of activity in the 1980s and early 1990s but this came to a halt in the run up to privatisation and then continued in the 2000s, and also the Great Recession intervened.
The Springfield Rail Improvement Project has received more than $150 million in federal funding to help finish the massive project.. Officials announced $157.1 million in federal funds have been ...