Sentences with phrase «for rail electrification»
He was a former Chair of CREATE (a group campaigning for rail electrification between Aberdeen and Edinburgh); a chairperson of STAR (Save Tor - na - Dee Hospital and Roxburghe House); and the founder and director of Grampian Enterprise.
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London's transport infrastructure will be boosted by # 11 billion, Oyster cards possibly rolled out nationwide and several rail lines will get funding for electrification — but the Department for Transport budget will be cut by 37 %.
The government announced plans on Sunday for a # 9bn investment in the rail network, including electrification of railway lines and a fund to pay for reopening lines and stations, which Cameron declared would be the biggest rail spending spree since Victorian times.
The meeting comes almost two months after the Government took criticism for backing plans to take Crossrail 2 forward while cancelling rail electrification schemes in the North, the Midlands and in south Wales.
But Labour said it had announced rail electrification plans in 2009 and it was «a bit rich» for coalition government ministers to take credit now after presiding over «two years of dither and delay».
Some of this — rail electrification, for instance — is already going ahead, but these are expensive and complex infrastructure projects which can not occur overnight, nor even within a five - year term in government.
Much of the transport policy is a recycling of old ideas; for example, the public ownership of the railways, a fuel duty regulator, and rail electrification.
Patrick Hallgate, Network Rail's managing director for the Western route, said: «Our Great Western Electrification Programme will bring Brunel's railway into the 21st century, by electrifying the main line that runs from London Paddington to Swansea in preparation for the arrival of a new fleet of electric trains.
«The North West electrification and our procurement of an additional 40 carriages is a great example of the industry working together and shows our commitment to providing the best possible rail travel for customers now and into the future.»
Electrification is more doable for passenger rail, given the market is usually more contained to a particular region.
Through the process of integrating landfill methane with other solutions, the total addressable market for electricity generation technologies was adjusted to account for reduced demand resulting from the growth of more energy - efficient technologies, [8] as well as increased electrification from other solutions like electric vehicles and high - speed rail.
Dr Birol and Minister Goyal discussed possible future collaboration on rail transport, and Minister Goyal shared the government's efforts for electrification and improvement of energy efficiency, and plans for India and the IEA to collaborate on a Global Railway Outlook to analyse prospects for the rail transport sector and how it can contribute to a more sustainable energy future.
The target to make every car and van zero emission by 2050 may be laughably unambitious given the pace of development in the automotive sector, but the promise of funding for clean transport infrastructure, including rail electrification, green buses, and cycling networks, should help pull forward the date at which an ultra-low emission transport system is delivered.