Interesting article. With the market rapidly changing and the announcments on rail investement from HS2 and the West coast mainline, you may be interested in the IET Railway event taking place on 11th April The North West Electrification Programme. The engineering team will give an overview of the background to the programme, how the option development and designs has been progressed, an overview of the finalised designs, the construction status and what the next steps are for the programme.