Sentences with phrase «of rail electrification»

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling sparked anger in July last year by supporting a new # 30 billion Crossrail 2 scheme in London and the South East days after a series of rail electrification projects in Wales, the Midlands and the North were axed or downgraded.

Last month's cancellation of rail electrification projects in the north of England and elsewhere was made in the same week that the Crossrail 2 line in London received the green light.

Shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle said: «It was Labour that announced an ambitious programme of rail electrification back in 2009.

Not exact matches

David Cameron says package of spending, including extensive electrification, will create world - class rail network

Mr Jones added that he hoped the Welsh Government and the UK Department of Transport can move forward on Valleys rail electrification with the help of the new Secretary of State.

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.

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».

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.

As SoS she delivered on referendum, electrification of rail & established a Comm on Assembly fiscal autonomy

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 country had little high - speed rail manufacturing capacity — to say nothing of equipment, signaling, communication, or electrification services.

Electric trains will be able to run between Manchester Airport and Scotland from December 2013, Network Rail said today, as it announced completion of the first phase of the # 400m North West electrification programme.

«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.»

«In the transportation sector, electrification and expansion of both passenger and freight rail and conversion of on - road vehicles to electric drive, hybrids, and turbo diesels, coupled with the recently enacted CAFÉ standards, will allow total residual carbon emissions to drop well below 10 percent of today's levels.

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.

On the rail side, I'm speaking from personal experience of the electrification of a commuter rail line in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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.

Therefore, to facilitate the operation of public transport services, ENGIE, through its subsidiary ENGIE Ineo, has already outfitted 12,000 kilometres of railroads, 1,800 light rail tramways with electrification, signal and telecom systems, as well as 35,000 buses with onboard operational assistance and passenger information systems.