Crossrail 2 sparks anger in regions
Transport secretary Chris Grayling has indicated qualified support for Crossrail 2 in London during a meeting with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, but the news has roused anger in several regions of England and Wales, where electrification schemes have been cancelled in favour of bi-mode trains. Campaigners have made fresh demands today for a ‘Crossrail for the North’, and a petition has been launched. There have also been protests in south Wales, where electrification between Cardiff and Swansea has been cancelled.
DfT scraps electrification schemesElectrification schemes between Cardiff and Swansea, Kettering, Nottingham and Sheffield, and between Windermere and Oxenholme have been cancelled by the Department for Transport. However, Network Rail said that ‘electrification still has its place’ in certain cases.
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