Sentences with phrase «rail electrification»

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.

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.

There was no word on rail electrification in Wales, while the announcement on the Deeside Enterprise Zone showed the Chancellor playing catch up with the Welsh Labour Government.

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

The Welsh Government needs to urgently explain why its plans for rail electrification no longer extend to all of the Valleys, Eluned Parrott AM has said today.

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 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.

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.

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.

Eluned Parrott, Welsh Liberal Democrat Shadow Transport Minister, has noted that there are significant gaps in rail electrification projects with five lines missing from Welsh Government's National Transport Finance Plan 2015.

And the UK Tory government is letting Wales down badly, failing to support projects like the Swansea Bay tidal lagoon and breaking their promise on rail electrification.

PM arrives in Welsh capital after announcing # 1.1 bn rail electrification programme on line between Swansea and London

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.