RIA Electrification Cost Challenge
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| Title | RIA Electrification Cost Challenge |
| Publisher | Railway Industry Association
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| Date |  March 2019
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| Summary | "perception of high cost and delays on some early projects, notably GWEP, were in danger of destroying confidence in future electrification which can deliver significant benefits for passengers, freight users and the environment. In 2018, RIA therefore established the Electrification Cost Challenge to ensure that objective and independent evidence was available, and that electrification remained one of the options to be considered when upgrading the UK railway system and its trains as demonstrated by a range of more successful projects" |
| Keywords | Decarbonisation Heavy rail Railway electric traction
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| Locations | Great Britain
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| Publication |  Live as of 26 February 2025
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| Archive |  Archived on 24 February 2024
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