HC Deb 22 February 1991 vol 186 c305W
Mr. Galbraith

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to his answer of 1 February,Official Report, column 699, if he will give the total rail length and percentage electrified for each country in Europe, and for Japan, and the USSR.

Mr. Freeman

The UICC's International Railway Statistics 1988 gives the following figures:

Total route Kms Electrified route as per cent of total
Austria 5,630 57
Belgium 3,554 64
Bulgaria 4,300 60
Czechoslovakia 13,104 29
Denmark 2,476 9
Finland 5,884 28
France 34,564 35
Germany 41,308 37
Great Britain 16,599 26
Greece 2,479 0
Hungary 7,614 27
Ireland (Northern) n.a. n.a.
Ireland (Republic) 1944 2
Italy 16,015 58
Japan 21,270 52
Luxembourg 272 60
Netherlands 2,828 69
Norway 4,174 58
Poland 26,545 40
Portugal 3,608 13
Rumania n.a. n.a.
Spain 12,550 50
Sweden 11.076 63
Switzerland 2,990 99
USSR 244,000 22
Yugoslavia 9,349 40