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North Wales Coast Line: Electrification

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate she has made of the total cost of the electrification of the North Wales mainline.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
19 May 2025
Target answer date
22 May 2025
Answer
22 May 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 19 May 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent estimate she has made of the total cost of the electrification of the North Wales mainline.

  2. 22 May 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 22 May 2025

    Answer published

    The government has not made any recent estimate of the cost of electrification of the North Wales Mainline. It is more than ten years since Network Rail were last asked to consider the electrification of this line. That work would need to be fully refresh...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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