Regrettably, your statement is true.Given the way plans for BR were changed due to circumstances and political changes, I'm sure you can justify keeping your original blueprint regardless of what the modernisation plan said in 1956(?).
You'll notice that wasn't implemented in full.
188 locos and 62 EMUs!188 locos! Wow! That's a lot! However not compared to the 420 steam locos they will replace I guess.
According to Jane's All The Worlds Railways 1956-57 the electrification part of the 1955 Modernisation Plan was:188 locos! Wow! That's a lot! However not compared to the 420 steam locos they will replace I guess.
Interesting - I must check the full Plan sometime, is there a pdf or other online version? Though as with most post-1945 UK plans, be it RN composition, aircraft procurement or railways, they all have to be filed under fictionAccording to Jane's All The Worlds Railways 1956-57 the electrification part of the 1955 Modernisation Plan was:
820 route miles of trunk lines and subsidiary main lines on 25kV AC
390 route miles of suburban lines on 25kV AC
250 route miles of extension to the Southern Region's system on 650V DC
The motive power requirements were:
1,100 electric locomotives and,
3,600 multiple-unit cars
IIRC 273 electric locomotives were actually built 1955-70 made up of 73 DC locomotives for the Southern Region and 200 AC for the London Midland Region.
At the same time the diesel requirements were:
2,500 diesel locomotives and,
4,300 multiple-unit cars
Some of your questions are answered in Posts 16 and 42.Interesting - I must check the full Plan sometime, is there a pdf or other online version? Though as with most post-1945 UK plans, be it RN composition, aircraft procurement or railways, they all have to be filed under fiction
The discrepancy between the actual build of electric locomotives and the planned total is huge. I can't imagine the ECML to Leeds/York and spur to Sheffield and Manchester would have needed more than the 200 planned for the LMR lines.
Or did the plan also include extensions from Crewe to Glasgow and York to Edinburgh? Or some other lines not electrified until much later or not yet? Midland Main Line, the Anglia lines or WCML extensions to Shrewsbury, Blackpool, Barrow or Liverpool/Manchester to Preston?