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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/8bn-rail-transport-scheme-unveiled.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Passengers facing huge hikes in train fares have been promised hundreds of new carriages" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-8bn-rail-transport-scheme-unveiled.jpg" alt="Passengers facing huge hikes in train fares have been promised hundreds of new carriages"/></a></p>
<p>Passengers facing huge hikes in train fares have been promised hundreds of new carriages after the Government committed itself to an £8 billion package of new rail schemes.</p>
<p>But there were warnings that overcrowding on trains is still likely to continue because customers will have to wait until 2019 to get all the 2,100 carriages promised.</p>
<p>Transport Secretary Philip Hammond said the Government had to &#8220;invest in Britain&#8217;s future&#8221; and the new carriages would &#8220;help make our railways fit for the 21st century&#8221;.</p>
<p>But shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle said passengers facing &#8220;massive increases in fares&#8221; would be disappointed the Government was &#8220;delaying new trains&#8221;.</p>
<p>There were concerns among Welsh politicians that Mr Hammond had deferred a decision on whether electrification of the Great Western line would be extended to Wales.</p>
<p>But in London there was a welcome for Mr Hammond&#8217;s commitment to funding the £6 billion Bedford-Brighton north-south Thameslink project in its entirety but dismay that the scheme was going to finish two years&#8217; late &#8211; in 2018.</p>
<p>And there was also concern that Mr Hammond had also deferred a decision on the replacement of ageing Intercity high-speed trains.</p>
<p>Among projects announced were: 2,100 new carriages by May 2019 but only 650 of them by 2014 &#8211; far fewer than the 1,300 originally promised by 2014 by Labour, a pledge Mr Hammond said was &#8220;never deliverable&#8221;.</p>
<p>Funding for the Thameslink project in its entirety but the completion put back two years due to reprogramming of work at London Bridge. A £600 million electrification, to be completed by 2016, of the Great Western line from London to Didcot, Oxford and Newbury but a decision on electrification of the rest of the line to Wales deferred until the new year;</p>
<p>A £300 million electrification of lines between Liverpool, Manchester, Preston and Blackpool with work due to be completed by 2016. A deferring until the new year of a decision on the Intercity Express Programme (IEP) &#8211; the project to replace the Intercity 225 trains, some of which date back to the 1970s.</p>
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