Electrification

Definitions

1. The act of electrifying, or the state of being charged with electricity.
   countable, uncountable
2. The adaptation (of a home, farm, village, city, industry, railroad) for electric power.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The proposed Bedford-Leeds service requires the electrification of the Midland main line north of Market Harborough (it assumes that Kettering to Market Harborough is a done deal⟳) and the Birmingham-Nottingham service requires electrification west of Nottingham.”

“Transport⟳ Scotland's Director of Rail Bill Reeve has raised the prospect of electrification in Scotland being extended to connect⟳ all of the nation's seven cities. With the Scottish Government due to publish⟳ its plans in the spring⟳ for achieving a zero net carbon railway by 2035, Reeve told RAIL that "the working assumption" is that it will include⟳ the erection of wires to Perth, Aberdeen, Inverness and Dundee.”

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