Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 53618

Railways: Electrification

Tabled: 20 May 2025
Answered: 28 May 2025

Question

Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

Labour — Slough

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 30 October 2024 to Question 10460 on Railways: Electrification, whether she has made an estimate of the potential savings to the public purse per mile of track electrified from introdu

Answer

Lilian Greenwood
The department has not made an estimate of the potential savings of a rolling programme of electrification; however, we recognise the potential benefits such a programme could have for reducing the cost of delivering electrification infrastructure in this...
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