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The UK needs a programme of rail electrification to be implemented “immediately” in order to meet its revised net zero commitments, according to 17 rail industry bodies, businesses and campaign groups. An open letter to transport secretary Grant Shapps says that it “will be impossible to decarbonise rail without further electrification”. The calls for electrification come after the government committed to reducing the UK’s carbon emissions by 78% by 2035. The letter is accompanied by a new report Why Rail Electrification? which sets out why – even with the development of clean ne...

More than a dozen rail bodies have written to transport minister Grant Shapps urging the government to begin an immediate programme of rail electrification to help the UK achieve its climate ambitions. In an open letter to Shapps, the group has claimed that the UK is at a ‘critical juncture’ in its aim to reduce carbon emissions. Recent analysis by Network Rail found that up to 13,000 single-track kilometres, or 450km per year, needs to be electrified by 2050 for the rail network to be decarbonised. In 2019/20, only 251km of track was electrified. The industry bodies also warn that the in...

ASLRRA [Yesterday], Caren Kraska, president and chairman of the Arkansas and Missouri Railroad (A&M), and a member of the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association (ASLRRA), testified on behalf of the nation’s 600 Class II and III railroads. The hearing took place before the United States House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines and Hazardous Materials during a hearing entitled, “Full Steam Ahead for Rail: Why Rail is More Relevant Than Ever for Economic and Environmental Progress.” In her remarks, Ms. Kraska noted that the tit...