Brand new UK train route that will stop major overcrowding on busy line

Brand caller UK bid way that volition halt large overcrowding connected engaged line. (Image: East West Rail)

A marque caller East West Rail task is acceptable to supply a caller train way linking Oxford and Cambridge, aiming to halt large overcrowding connected immoderate of the busiest lines successful the region. 

The £1.9 cardinal scheme, backed by the government, volition present a nonstop rail nexus betwixt the 2 assemblage cities via Milton Keynes and Bedford, creating a caller transportation crossed the UK.

Once completed, the East West Rail volition unfastened up an important transport nexus crossed large areas, including Oxford, Bletchley, and Cambridge, with the archetypal signifier of services betwixt Oxford and Bletchley expected to commencement successful 2025. 

The enactment volition run successful 3 stages: initially from Oxford to Bletchley, past extending to Bedford, and yet reaching Cambridge.

Transport Secretary Louise Haigh precocious highlighted the economical benefits of East West Rail, forecasting implicit £6 cardinal successful growth, with the imaginable to make 28,000 jobs and tens of thousands of caller homes on the route. 

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The enactment volition yet link Oxford with Cambridge. (Image: East West Rail)

Haigh besides stressed the project’s extremity to enactment some businesses and commuters crossed the region, calling it “transformational.”

The planned way volition usage upgraded existing tracks wherever possible, with caller operation bridging gaps. 

The railway enactment betwixt Oxford and Bicester was upgraded backmost successful 2016, but caller sections are present needed, peculiarly from Bicester to Bletchley, arsenic good arsenic caller infrastructure betwixt Bedford and Cambridge.

To assistance trim congestion, East West Rail aims to tally up to 4 trains per hour. The projected docket outlines services from 6am until midnight Monday done Thursday, with somewhat aboriginal work connected weekends. Sundays are expected to tally from 7am to 11pm.

The strategy is backed by the authorities and is estimated to outgo £1.9 billion. (Image: East West Rail)

In Cambridgeshire, caller tunnels person been projected to minimise disruption to section communities. 

One passageway eastbound of Cambourne and different done Chapel Hill adjacent Haslingfield are intended to bounds the biology interaction and code section concerns. 

There are besides plans to consolidate immoderate stations connected the Marston Vale section, perchance expanding services threefold on this stretch.

However, the task has faced pushback from section residents and immoderate politicians. South Cambridgeshire MP Pippa Heylings called the plans “environmentally damaging,” portion immoderate residents argued the existent way is some costly and disruptive.

A nationalist consultation connected the East West Rail proposals is unfastened until January 24, wherever radical tin springiness their thoughts connected the project.