UK Rail and Trains

Delays in electrification are not down to current rolling stock. There are bigger forces at play. For example freight operators have been mothballing their electric fleet because diesel has become cheaper than the electricity tariff per mile due to the recent energy price increases. Politics plays its part, with limited funding and each region scrabbling to get their own schemes done. Pay for a new station here, replace a footbridge with something wheelchair accessible there, and you quickly run out.