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RE: First Transpennine Express
(09/08/2013 16:18)First Class Wrote: DfT plans to electrify Windermere branch.Whilst I agree that electrification to Winderemere is sensible the DfT press release does have a big IF in it - subject to the business case saying that the £16M is value for money. This proposal to electrify is nothing new. Sometime in the 1980s there was a proposal by BR to electrify the branch using redundant equipment from Kingmoor Yard. At the time the branch was being operated by Class 108s which ran empty to and from Carlisle Upperby Depot. Electrification would have saved 49 miles each way of dead mileage each day. All time rail mileage travelled 327264 miles |
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