Bletchley was once a sleepy village in the Buckingham countryside, about 43 miles (69 km) north of London. Sleepy, and with a modesty little halt on the West Coast Main Line. Not that any expresses...Read more
England’s East-West Rail potential is perfectly illustrated by the huge success of the reopened Scottish Borders Railway. Backers of the project to connect Cambridge and Oxford have cited the Scottish project as an exemplar of...Read more
Britain’s HS2 high-speed rail project has had a welcome boost. Approval has been granted for the design of a system-wide infrastructure maintenance depot at Calvert in Buckinghamshire. The site will be at the intersection between...Read more
From the railway industry point of view, January has been an unqualified success for East West Rail. Reconnecting Oxford and Cambridge passed a significant milestone. The multi-billion pound project to re-establish a direct railway connection...Read more
Britain’s two contentious and controversial independently promoted rail developments have met. The crossing point for HS2 and East West Rail is in rural Buckinghamshire, and civil engineering has been completed on the grade-separated crossing. The...Read more
It’s the ‘bustitution’ of all time. Passengers on the platform for the next train on the Marston Vale Line might want to take a seat. They have another six months to wait. Buses will substitute...Read more