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21st-century modernisation of the Great Western Main Line
Network Rail plans to spend £5 billion〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.networkrail.co.uk/uploadedFiles/networkrailcouk/Contents/Improvements/The_Great_Western/WesternVision.pdf )〕 on modernising the Great Western Main Line and its South Wales branch plus other associated lines like the North Cotswolds〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.networkrail.co.uk/uploadedFiles/networkrailcouk/Contents/Improvements/The_Great_Western/WesternVision.pdf )〕 which was completed in 2011. The modernisation plans were announced at separate times but their development time-scales, during the second decade of the 21st century, overlap each other. The modernisation includes: electrification, resignalling, new rolling stock and station upgrades. According to Network Rail, the modernisation started in June 2010 and will end in 2017.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.networkrail.co.uk/uploadedFiles/networkrailcouk/Contents/Improvements/The_Great_Western/WesternVision.pdf )〕
==Historical background==
At the start of the 21st century, the Great Western Main Line and the Midland Main Line were the last of the major main line routes in the UK using diesel trains as the main source of locomotive power.〔(UKPA: Rail electrification work announced )〕 When the announcement was made in July 2009 to electrify the Great Western (along with the Liverpool-Manchester line), it represented the first big rail electrification project in the UK for 20 years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=shares.ie: )〕 The South Wales Main Line branch of the GWML is set to be the first electrified cross-country railway line in Wales.
The plan to upgrade the rolling stock on the Great Western was included in the Intercity Express Programme (IEP) announced in 2007, a Department for Transport (DfT)-led initiative to replace the ageing fleet of InterCity 125 and InterCity 225 train sets currently in use on much of the UK rail network.
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