Great Western Electrification Approved .... Sort Of!

[STFC_Gazza]

So the Great Wesern Electrification has been approved... well sort of for the great wester rail line.

Electficiation will take place to Didcot and Oxford within 6 years but NOT to Swindon , Bristol or Wales, for local services so Swindon will be stuck with 30 year old trains for the foreseeable future then?

Does this effect businesses??? Will we be paying higher rail fares again to pay for the works that wont even reach here?

[Samdy Gray]

No.

[Fred Elliot]

No



(Bored at work this week Gaz ?)

[Samdy Gray]

You would've thought he'd have plenty of beer to sample and pub managers to bum in the warm up to Christmas.

[STFC_Gazza]

no just saw it on the news at lunch and the welsh were saying how it would kill their economy "

[Reg Smeeton]

  Should never have got rid of broad gauge....been downhill since (apart from the uphill bits obviously)

[Spencer_White]

the older trains have got more table seats and thats all that matters.

[Fred Elliot]

no just saw it on the news at lunch and the welsh were saying how it would kill their economy "

do the Welsh have an economy ?

Thanks for sharing with us all though Gaz

[flammableBen]

Nationalise the railways. (again)

[Lumps]

So, that's a electrification of the only bits of GW track that are in the South East then? And fuck Wales and the West presumably.

[herthab]

the older trains have got more table seats and thats all that matters.

Good point, well made.

[cavpete]

  Should never have got rid of broad gauge....been downhill since (apart from the uphill bits obviously)

spat my drink out when i read this.

needed a good Friday chuckle

[Hexagon]

So, that's a electrification of the only bits of GW track that are in the South East then? And fuck Wales and the West presumably.

What's basically happening is the southeast bit up to Oxford and Newbury needs electrification because they will be getting the old electric trains from the thameslink area. The thameslink area will be getting a large amount of the new carriages that are being promised.
Wales and the West electrification is basically on hold until they've decided what type of train will replace the HST.