WINDERMERE BRANCH TO BE ELECTRIFIED
Published at 19:50 on Saturday 29th November 2014
Tags: Winderemere, Northern, North West, Electrification, Network Rail, DfT
Class 185 No 185122 leads the 09.30 service from Windemere to Oxenholme into Kendal. Brian Morrison
The Department for Transport has confiremd that £16 million of Government funding has been dedicated to electrifying the Windermere branch.
The announcement came as Transport Minister, Baroness Kramer, visited Kendal on 28th November. The 10-mile line from Oxenholme to Windermere will be upgraded as part of the work, although no official comment is being made as to whether the service, which is primarily now a shuttle, rather than through trains to Manchester, will remain with the new TransPennine franchise, or be transferred to new Northern operator.
The work could be completed as early as 2017.
