Comments on: Electrification Postponed: Echoes of 1963? http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/railways/transport/electrification-postponed-echoes-of-1963/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/railways/transport/electrification-postponed-echoes-of-1963/comment-page-1/#comment-72204 Tue, 30 Jun 2015 22:43:10 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=13066#comment-72204 As I’ve said before, HS2 has suffered from being mis-sold. It’s not about cutting 20 minutes off travel times between London and Birmingham, it’s all about putting in an extra pair of tracks north of London to add much-needed capacity.

As for the GWML electification taking priority over MML that might be down to politics: Wales vs. South Yorkshire?

]]> By: Michael http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/railways/transport/electrification-postponed-echoes-of-1963/comment-page-1/#comment-72075 Sun, 28 Jun 2015 15:31:40 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/?p=13066#comment-72075 Sigh, this only goes to show why politicians are the last people who should be put in charge of long term planning.

HS2 might or might not be a good idea, but I’m sure it is not the best idea for spending the woefully limited transport budget or deploying the even more woefully limited engineering skill pool.

I’m not even convinced the WR electrification is more urgent than the MML. The snag is that the only sensible place to pause that project will be when the wires get to the end of the Thameslink project. Even a politician can work out how that is going to play with voters outside London.

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