East Coast Electrics-An Alternative British Railway

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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.
Regrettably, your statement is true.

See below.

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Notes
  1. The main text is from the Electrification Report of the 1955 Modern
  2. The 1957 Plan column is the route mileages from the 33-Year Plan of 1957.
  3. The Carried Out Column is from British Railways Engineering 1948-80 by John Jonhson.
  4. The Electrification of Trunk Routes in the 1957 Plan is 28 route miles less than the 1955 Modernisation Plan. This might be because I haven't included Doncaster to York.
  5. The Suburban Electrification in the 1957 Plan is 20 route miles less than the 1955 Modernisation Plan. I don't know why.
  6. The Extensions of Southern Region Electrification in the 1957 Plan is 15 route miles less than the 1955 Modernisation Plan. I don't know why. However, I do know that Ashford to Hastings was deleted from Phase 2 of the Kent Coast Scheme and that is why there is a difference of 25 route miles between the 1957 Plan and what was actually carried out.
 
188 locos! Wow! That's a lot! However not compared to the 420 steam locos they will replace I guess.
188 locos and 62 EMUs!

IOTL the 200 AC electric locomotives built in the 1960s were divided into 6 classes as follows:

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AL1 to AL5 were the prototypes and my guess is that had the 1950s version of the King's Cross to Newcastle electrification been carried out, all 188 locomotives would have been of the AL6 type.
 
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:

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
 
According 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
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?
 
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?
Some of your questions are answered in Posts 16 and 42.
 
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