Wires start to go up on Great Western Main Line [Rail News]
Date: 14/11/2015
The first overhead wires of the Great Western Main Line electrification project have gone up near Reading.
Network Rail engineers began the installation on November 12 between Pangbourne and Tilehurst - the section which will be used by Hitachi to test its Class 800 Intercity Express trains.
A mile of earth wire was installed, becoming the first section of OLE to go up beyond the existing catenary at Airport Junction in Stockley, London.
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