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July 10, 2025 | Financial

British government confirms rail infrastructure investment

A total of £10.2bn allocated to upgrades in recent Spending Review.

May 19, 2025 | Passenger

Connecting growth clusters by rail

East West Rail is one of Britain’s major rail projects, with services on the first section due to start later this year. Mark Simmons reviews progress with the £6bn scheme and talks to those involved about its challenges and how they have been resolved.

March 25, 2025 | Main line

Chiltern Railways to operate Phase 1 of East West Rail

British operator will run on the reopened line from Oxford to Milton Keynes.

November 1, 2024 | Main line

East West Rail to explore discontinuous electrification

Plans to electrify the project from the outset were shelved in 2016.

June 5, 2023 | Commuter Rail

Works starts on Cambridge South station

British government providing £200m for new station serving biomedical campus.

February 22, 2022 | Infrastructure

Alstom wins £130m contract to resignal Cambridge area

The contract covers 201km of track with possible future integration into other projects.

November 16, 2021 | Infrastructure

Network Rail saves £70m and six months on East West Rail

Decision not to replace a flyover like-for-like saves time and money on British rail reopening project.

January 23, 2021 | Infrastructure

£794m package to reopen British lines unveiled

TWO lines in England which have been closed for more than 50 years are due to be reopened under a £794m investment package announced on January 23 by British transport secretary, Mr Grant Shapps.

May 4, 2020 | Infrastructure

Britain’s East-West Rail project makes progress

BRITAIN’s infrastructure manager, Network Rail (NR) has started to remove sections of a 1960s viaduct at Bletchley for the East-West Rail project.

February 26, 2020 | Infrastructure

Specialist partners sought for Britain's east-west rail project

EAST West Railway has published a prior information notice to find specialist partners to help the company deliver the proposed East-West Rail project to connect Oxford and Cambridge.

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