Let the Electric Train Take the Strain?

Aneurin Redman-White paints a very convincing picture of the successive failures to upgrade the UK rail system (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/24/clean-rail-travel-uk-government-electrification-low-carbon). Redman-White points out that, periodically, massive developments are announced (such as electrification of a major route). Teams of specialist workers are assembled and trained to carry out the changes. The development then overruns and is abandoned or drastically cut. The trained team is dispersed. A new development is announced and a new team is assembled to carry it out. The whole cycle is then repeated ad nauseum. This has essentially limited the efficiency of what should have been recognised as a major tool in the UK's drive to become carbon neutral. The country needs better, faster, cleaner and cheaper rail links.