Midland Main Line upgrade
Ongoing railway upgrade in the United Kingdom / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Midland Main Line upgrade is an ongoing upgrade to the Midland Main Line (MML), a major railway line in the United Kingdom.[1] There have been a number of proposals to electrify the line over many years[2] but the 2012 proposal and announcement by the UK government was that it would include electrification of the railway line between Bedford, Wellingborough, Corby, Leicester, Derby, Nottingham and Sheffield. The routes between Nottingham and Sheffield and the Erewash Valley line were not included at this time, only the line between Derby and Sheffield. The upgrade was part of the HLOS - High Level Output Specification for Control Period 5 published by the UK Government in 2012.[3] This was also part of a rolling programme of railway electrification projects. To enable all the benefits of using electric traction, the line south of Bedford into London St Pancras is also being progressively upgraded including boosting the power supply.[4][5] Parts of the line have been classed as congested infrastructure hence another reason for the upgrade.[6]