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  2. History of rail transport in Great Britain 1995 to date

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    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.

  3. Jubilee Line Extension - Wikipedia

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    This option was adopted, with an estimated cost of £2.1 billion to which Olympia and York would make a £400 million contribution, the original cost estimate of the Waterloo and Greenwich Railway. [6] In the end it cost £3.5bn, partly because of huge cost overruns during construction.

  4. Transpennine Route Upgrade - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  5. Work completed on £40m Dawlish rail protection - AOL

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    The work between Dawlish and Holcombe began in July 2023 and saw Network Rail install protection measures to catch any loose material. In total, the project cost £37m, which was funded by the ...

  6. Rail transport in Great Britain - Wikipedia

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    Train fares cost 2.7% more than under British Rail in real terms on average. [17] However, while the price of anytime and off-peak tickets has increased, the price of Advance tickets has dramatically decreased in real terms: the average Advance ticket in 1995 cost £9.14 (in 2014 prices) compared to £5.17 in 2014.

  7. Northumberland Line - Wikipedia

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    Revised proposals, released in July 2019, were reduced in scope from the plan considered in the 2016 GRIP 2 study and proposed a four-phase project [31] to reduce the initial cost; the first phase, at an estimated £90 million, [28] was to introduce an hourly passenger service [26] to serve new or reopened stations at Northumberland Park ...

  8. The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit ...

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    The latest Treasury estimates show that the cost of Britain’s settlement with the EU stands at approximately £30.2bn in total. This is separate from any estimates of lost money from separating ...

  9. List of proposed railway electrification routes in Great Britain

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    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.