Rail Infrastructure projects in the United Kingdom
Rail Infrastructure projects in the United Kingdom are needed because much of the United Kingdom railway infrastructure is of Victorian origin.[1][2][3] Electrification is infrastructure but usually accompanied by other modernising such as level crossing removal, new signaling, bridge and tunnel modifications and embankment and cutting works to improve drainage.[4][5][6] Various schemes to modernise the UK railway have been completed and also some are ongoing. Some of these include:
Essentially complete
[edit]- Great Western Main Line upgrade
- Airdrie–Bathgate rail link
- Crossrail
- Northern Hub
- Thameslink Programme
- West Coast Main Line route modernisation
- Gospel Oak to Barking line
In progress
[edit]- Transpennine Route Upgrade
- Felixstowe to Nuneaton railway upgrade
- Midland Main Line upgrade
- Railway electrification in Scotland
- North West England electrification schemes
- High Speed 2
- South Wales Metro
Once proposed but now essentially abandoned
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Cartwright, Mark. "The Railways in the British Industrial Revolution". World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
- ^ "Victorian railways". BBC Teach. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
- ^ Shaw-Taylor, Leigh; You, Xuesheng. "The development of the railway network in Britain 1825-1911" (PDF).
- ^ "Railway formation, substructure and superstructure". Civil Engineering Tech. 2023-06-30. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
- ^ "Earthworks: cutting slopes and embankments". Network Rail. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
- ^ "Affordable electrification: reducing the amount of civil engineering required". Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE). 2025-12-02. Retrieved 2025-02-12.
- ^ "Integrated Rail Plan for the North and Midlands" (PDF). UK Government. 18 November 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 November 2021. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
- ^ "Network Rail TDNS Interim Business Case" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 February 2021. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
Further reading
[edit]- Keenor, Garry. Overhead Line Electrification for Railways 6th edition. also available as a free PDF download at www.ocs4rail.com
- "Network Rail A Guide to Overhead Electrification Revision 10" (PDF). Network Rail. February 2015.
- "On board with electrification". Permanent Way Institution Journal. 139 (1). January 2021. ISSN 2057-2425 – via PWI.
- Boocock, Colin (1991). East Coast Electrification. Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-1979-7.
- Nock, O.S. (1965). Britain's new railway: Electrification of the London-Midland main lines from Euston to Birmingham, Stoke-on-Trent, Crewe, Liverpool and Manchester. London: Ian Allan. OCLC 59003738.
- Nock, O.S. (1974). Electric Euston to Glasgow. Ian Allan. ISBN 978-0711005303.
- Semmens, P.W.B. (March 1991). Electrifying the East Coast Route: Making of Britain's First 140m.p.h. Railway. Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-0850599299.
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