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The North West Route Utilisation Strategy (NWRUS) is a Route Utilisation Strategy, published by Network Rail in May 2007. [1] [2] It was the fifth RUS to be produced.It was included in a map published by the Office of Rail Regulation as established in May 2007. [3]
In 2009 Lord Adonis was appointed Secretary of State for Transport and, after a gap of more than a decade, electrification of the UK rail network was back on the agenda with Adonis announcing plans to electrify the Great Western Main Line from London as far as Swansea, as well as infill electrification schemes in the North West of England. The ...
Network NorthWest branding at Wigan Wallgate in 2012. Network NorthWest featured a red and grey NW logo which was applied to publicity, timetables, station signage and some rolling stock across the region. The limited NorthWest provincial train livery was a blue upper body, light grey lower body and a red and grey bodyside stripe with an "NW ...
England: London, North West, South East, West Midlands; Scotland; North Wales: High Speed Main Line 125 mph: ... Maps of the UK National Rail Network Web site. [8
On 18 November 2021 the Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands (IRP) was published. [53] This government document states HS2 will be built from Crewe to Manchester. [54] and reduces HS2 to a high speed link from London via Birmingham to the north west of England just south of Wigan North Western railway station. [55]
[14] [15] In February 2024, it was confirmed that the North London / West London section would be named the Mildmay line (to honour the Mildmay Hospital in Bethnal Green, which treated victims of the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s) and would be coloured sky blue on the updated network map. [3] The renaming was implemented in November 2024.
The Cumbrian Coast line is a rail route in North West England, running from Carlisle to Barrow-in-Furness via Workington and Whitehaven.The line forms part of Network Rail route NW 4033, which continues (as the Furness line) via Ulverston and Grange-over-Sands to Carnforth, where it connects with the West Coast Main Line.
The Liverpool–Wigan line was initially scheduled to be on the Merseyrail electric urban network. The Strategic Plan for the North West, the SPNW, in 1973 envisaged that the Outer Loop which was to be an orbital line circling the city of Liverpool, the Edge Hill Spur which is a tunnel connecting the east of Liverpool to the city centre ...