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HS2 completes first tunnel cross-passages

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Major milestone reached on Chiltern Tunnel

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Severn Valley HST will make two return trips to Bridgnorth!

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New trains to transform TfW fleet

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Resonate joins Modern Railways EXPO sponsors

Leading operational systems and software company Resonate is the latest company to support the Modern Railways EXPO 2022 exhibition.

Deighton footbridge prepares for TRU

Andy Roden

New structure creates clearance for electrification and track quadrupling

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Gilruth visits Scots power upgrades

First sub-station commissioned in £120m project

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Modern Railways September 2022

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£161m Oxford station funding confirmed

Andy Roden

New platform, bridge and crossovers to be installed

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Huge demand for GTR’s community fund

Andy Roden

‘Your Station, Your Community’ scheme oversubscribed by £8m

Andy Roden
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Additional platform at Bedford proposed

A new platform on the Up Fast line at Bedford is the main proposal is the Bedford Area Strategic Advice document produced by Network Rail and published in July

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