Topic: Electrification

Latvia’s electrification scheme cancelled

A large-scale project to electrify the railway network of Latvia has been cancelled due a continuing drop in rail freight volumes. The national railway company Latvijas Dzelzcels took this decision this week. The electrification project...Read more

25-03-2020|Comment|author: Majorie van Leijen

Rolling electrification needed to decarbonise UK’s railway by 2040

A consortium of business interests from around the UK has called on the UK government to immediately start a programme of rolling electrification to help meet the target of decarbonising the railway by 2040. The...Read more

20-02-2020|Comment|author: Simon Walton

UK’s hope for electrified Great Western Railway washed away?

For over a century, UK’s Severn Tunnel has been both the engineering marvel and operational nightmare of the arrow-straight line that connects London with Cardiff, the capital of Wales, and Bristol, the one-time capital of...Read more

27-08-2019|Comment|author: Majorie van Leijen