Couple of points:-
- 1949 Liverpool St to Shenfield GE 1.5KV DC to 6.25KV AC in 1960 to 25KV in 1976/80 - should strictly be Liverpool St/Fenchurch St - Shenfield 1.5kV......
Fenchurch St was wired on the DC system as far as the GE main line at Bow Rd Jn.
However no regular DC electric trains ran into Fenchurch St before full LT&S electrification and conversion to AC in 1962.
1962 Fenchurch St to Tilbury & Shoeburyness LT&S then becomes: Gas Factory Jn to Tilbury & Shoeburyness LT&S
- 2015 Newton le Willows to Edge Hill should read 2015 Earlestown to Edge Hill.
Winwick Jn - Earlestown - Newton-le-Willows - Golborne was wired as part of the 1973 Weaver Jn - Preston scheme.
- The LB&SCR electrified a number of its South London suburban lines from Victoria and London Bridge in stages from 1909 onwards at 6.7kV 25Hz AC overhead.
The Southern Railway converted these routes to its new standard 750V DC by about 1930 (IIRC).
The LB&SCR overhead electrics covered quite a bit of territory at its peak before being 3rd-rail-ified, so it'll be a challenging balancing act getting a 2-page summary which is both concise and covers all the historically important systems.
2015 Newton le Willows to Edge Hill should read 2015 Earlestown to Edge Hill.
Winwick Jn - Earlestown - Newton-le-Willows - Golborne was wired as part of the 1973 Weaver Jn - Preston scheme
That's an interesting one though isn't it ? Some of the Earlestown platforms were electrified, but not the Liverpool to Manchester ones, is that right ? Thus, if we're talking about the electrification of the Liverpool to Manchester line it must then be from either Earlestown East Jct or, the more well known Newton le Willows ?
This source (p40) calls it Newton le Willows so I am tempted to do the same.
Your other points may be historically accurate but I am trying to keep the list within manageable limits, tow sides of A4 at reasonable size font !
Great work. Now for someone to do one for DC electrification!
Yes, I was thinking of doing that next but would appreciate someone else doing it ! Same format and colour coded that would fit on one sheet, or at the most two sheets, of A4 ?
The 1960s WCML dates/sections are still wrong.
Lichfield was never a limit of electric working, and Crewe-Nuneaton came before anything further south.
Crewe-Liverpool was 1962, not 1960.
Both my own source ( I think it was a BTF film) and
https://www.ocs4rail.com/wp-content...-Electrification-for-Railways-5th-edition.pdf (p240) appear to agree on this :
1960 Crewe to Manchester WCML
1962 Crewe to Liverpool WCML
1963 Crewe to Lichfield WCML
1964 Lichfield to Rugby WCML
1965 Euston to Rugby (incl Northampton) + Cheadle Hulme to Macclesfield WCML
1966 Rugby > B/ham > Wolverhampton > Stafford (incl Bescot, Walsall) WCML
1966 Colwich > Stoke > Macclesfield WCML
I have updated the opener and the database colour printout to reflect all the info kindly posted (bearing in mind I want to keep it within the aforementioned limits).