Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 78887
Railways: Electrification
Tabled: 10 October 2025
Answered: 20 October 2025
Question
Liz Jarvis
Liberal Democrat — Eastleigh
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the time taken to deploy partial electrification on the rail network.
Answer
Keir MatherHistorically, full overhead electrification has been the main way to electrify the railway and 74 per cent of passenger kilometres travelled are already electric. Although a specific assessment of the deployment of partial electrification has not been mad...
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