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History of rail transport in Great Britain - The modernisation plan | | History of rail transport in Great Britain - The modernisation plan: Encyclopedia II - History of rail transport in Great Britain - The modernisation plan | | The modernisation plan of the mid to late 1950s, was intended to bring the railway system kicking and screaming into the 20th century. However most railway historians now regard it as a costly failure and a missed opportunity. The plan involved major projects of electrification and dieselisation of the existing network.
However, the plan has been widely criticised since it failed to define what the railways were actually for, and failed to take into account the impact that the motor car, road transport and a changing society would have upon the railway system, and attempting to carry th ...
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History of rail transport in Great Britain - The modernisation plan
The modernisation plan of the mid to late 1950s, was intended to bring the railway system kicking and screaming into the 20th century. However most railway historians now regard it as a costly failure and a missed opportunity. The plan involved major projects of electrification and dieselisation of the existing network.
However, the plan has been widely criticised since it failed to define what the railways were actually for, and failed to take into account the impact that the motor car, road transport and a changing society would have upon the railway system, and attempting to carry the railway system on as it had been since the Victorian era as if nothing had changed.
So, for example, massive investment was made in marshalling yards at a time when small wagonload traffic which they dealt with was in steep decline and being lost rapidly to the roads. This proved to be a costly mistake. In total £85 million pounds (1.6 billion in 2005 money) was wasted on upgrading marshalling yards, many of which were closed a few years later.
Another element of the modernisation plan was replacing steam with diesel and electric traction. However the dieselisation plans were rushed, and many classes of diesel locomotive were rushed into full scale production before their prototypes had been fully tested. Predictably enough it turned out to be an expensive fiasco. Many of the new diesels were chronically unreliable, some so much so that they had to be withdrawn from service after just a few months of service, at enormous cost. This affair did little to bolster British Railways' reputation with the public or the government.
Theoretically dieselisation would produce efficiency savings, because diesel locomotives were less labour-intensive than steam. However the unreliability of many of the new diesels wiped out much of the potential efficiency saving from dieselisation.
The modernisation plan was hugely expensive costing more than one billion pounds (over £10 billion in 2005 money), and failed to produce the hoped for revival in rail traffic.
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