doa46231
Member
Bi-modes and the death of electrification
In my view, the introduction of fleets of bi-mode trains will prove disastrous to any programme of further electrification of our railways.
Even those schemes already planned are likely to be curtailed.
I doubt if Cardiff to Swansea will go ahead, perhaps even Oxford may lose out.
Transpennine is a dead duck, and as for the Midland Spine, you can forget it!
Surely, once these bi-modes are up and running, a cash strapped Govt. will say" these trains are doing very well off the wires, why go to the expense of electrifying a line when the new trains are running quite satisfactorily along them?"
Am I wrong?
In my view, the introduction of fleets of bi-mode trains will prove disastrous to any programme of further electrification of our railways.
Even those schemes already planned are likely to be curtailed.
I doubt if Cardiff to Swansea will go ahead, perhaps even Oxford may lose out.
Transpennine is a dead duck, and as for the Midland Spine, you can forget it!
Surely, once these bi-modes are up and running, a cash strapped Govt. will say" these trains are doing very well off the wires, why go to the expense of electrifying a line when the new trains are running quite satisfactorily along them?"
Am I wrong?