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Rail Freight Group Can Go Electric, the CILT has Found

Nearly all UK operations could well be electrified by the year 2040. The Chartered Institute of Logistics has now revealed that 10% of freight trains are now being hauled by a range of electric locomotives. 800 miles of electrification is required to help Britain enable 95% of their freight. The CILT has suggested an electrification programme and this is going to run for 20 years. This is going to cost millions per annum. Even though the decarbonisation of tech is still emerging, it's important to know that electrified transport is now fully mature and it is a proven green technology as well. Right now it would seem that it has been used for well over 60 years. Based on the analysis of rail movements across the UK, it would seem that the routes that have been proposed for electrification have come from distribution centres and from major quarries. These are going to urban areas and they all require large quantities of construction materials. Also included within this are routes that are serving other customers from the steel industry. Of course, when you look at the electrification from the key cross-routes, you will see that they span from the Midlands to the North and that they avoid London in general. This provides a direct link to the West Coast Line and it also links to the North West as well. It is going to go from Peterborough and it is going to go through Lincoln and then to Doncaster. This is going to then be a direct link to Yorkshire and then to the North East. Of course, this movement is great because it facilitates zero-carbon trains to be used instead of diesel ones. The climate movement is going to benefit from this quite a lot.

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