Plans for upgrade work in Cambridgeshire to be unveiled by Network Rail: Hutingdon to Woodwalton illustration of reinstated track

Tuesday 28 Jun 2016

Plans for upgrade work in Cambridgeshire to be unveiled by Network Rail

Plans to allow more trains to run and reduce journey times on the East Coast Main Line will be on display at four public information events being held by Network Rail in Cambridgeshire next week.

The events will focus on a project to reinstate a fourth track between Huntingdon and Woodwalton as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan to provide a bigger, better, more reliable railway for passengers and businesses.

The project will reinstate six miles of track on the east side of the railway between Huntingdon station and Woodwalton and remove the level crossing at Abbots Ripton. It will remove a critical bottleneck between London and the North by allowing fast trains to overtake slower ones, increasing the number of services which can run and improving reliability.

Network Rail engineers and their contractors will be available to give more information about the Huntingdon to Woodwalton project and answer questions on the dates and times below:

  • Abbots Ripton Village Hall, Huntingdon, PE28 2PF – Monday, 4 July 2016 between 4 and 8pm.
  • Woodwalton Village Hall, Woodwalton, PE28 5YN – Tuesday, 5 July 2016 between 4 and 8pm.
  • Huntingdon Town Hall (Assembly Hall), Huntingdon, PE29 3PJ – Friday, 8 July 2016 between 4 and 8pm.
  • Huntingdon Town Hall (Assembly Hall), Huntingdon, PE29 3PJ – Saturday, 9 July 2016 between 10am and 3pm.

A new webpage giving details of the project will also be available at www.networkrail.co.uk/huntingdon-woodwalton from Monday, 4 July 2016.

Notes

Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan includes a programme of investment to allow more and faster services to run on the East Coast Main Line. This includes investment to allow the new InterCity Express Programme trains to be introduced. The new trains will allow more passengers to travel on each service and have a higher top speed than existing trains. Other projects will remove bottle necks to make room for another long distance passenger train each hour while improving links to and through London – all while keeping freight on the rails and off our congested road network.

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