DR: DFT TAKES CHARGE

£450 MILLION FOR DIGITAL RAILWAY V2.0

Green light for C-DAS? Unit No 168107 at Banbury on 24 September 2016.

In his Autumn Statement on 23 November, the Chancellor, and former Transport Secretary, Philip Hammond announced an additional £450 million from 2018-19 to 2020-21 ‘to trial digital signalling technology’. This will ‘expand capacity, and improve reliability’.

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