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In 1981 the British Railways Board published a final document on railway electrification that included the Midland Main Line as high priority. [11] In the intervening years priority was put on other projects such as schemes in Anglia and the East Coast Main Line. [12] Then in the 1990s, British Rail was privatised followed by a change in ...
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The Midland Main Line (MML), sometimes also spelt Midland Mainline, is a major railway line from London to Sheffield in Yorkshire via the East Midlands. It comprises the lines from London's St Pancras station via Leicester , Derby / Nottingham and Chesterfield .
The plan gives full digital signal upgrades to the Midland Main Line and East Coast Main Line (ECML), with the electrification of the Midland Main Line to Derby, Nottingham and Sheffield. [38] The ECML will have 140 mph (230 km/h) operation in some sections. Newcastle, Leeds and Sheffield will use these lines to London instead of HS2.
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Network Rail stated in 2014 that the line between Derby and Sheffield would be electrified as part of the Midland Main Line upgrade. [7] However, the electrification programme was severely cut back in July 2017. [8] As of 2023, Network Rail is working on the section between York and Church Fenton. [9]
Felixstowe is the UK's busiest container port [7] which handles in the region of 40 to 50% of Britain's container traffic trade. [8] [9] In 2017, it was ranked at 43rd busiest container port in the world and 8th in Europe, with an estimated traffic of 3.85 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU). [10]
2012 Department for Transport plans for UK rail electrification showing Electric Spine in yellow/green. The "Electric Spine" was the name for part of a, now largely cancelled, [1] rolling programme of railway electrification projects [2] in England initially estimated to cost £800 million, [3] [4] but later thought to cost close to £3 billion. [1]