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An £87m contract to deliver the design and construction of the new Chiltern Railways route between London Marylebone and Oxford and the western section of the East West Rail scheme to Bedford and Milton Keynes has been awarded by Network Rail. A joint venture between Carillion and Buckingham Group Contracting will design and build the […]

OVER the coming months Network Rail is carrying out de vegetation clearance and topographical and winter ecology surveys on a section of track which has no running trains in preparation for work which will upgrade the railway line between Claydon Junction and Bedford. This section of track which forms part of the East West Rail scheme […]

Cllr Janet Blake of Buckinghamshire County Council has confirmed that local authorities in the East West Rail Consortium will contribute £45m to the scheme to re-instate a railway for passenger services between Bedford and Oxford, Milton Keynes and Aylesbury and beyond. The commitment was given in a letter presented to the Under-Secretary of State for […]

A new collaboration has been announced today which will oversee the project to allow fast train services to operate between Oxford and London Marylebone. The first services are expected to start in two years time. The collaboration between Network Rail and Chiltern Railways will manage upgrading of the line between Oxford and Bicester and connection […]

MPs Iain Stewart and Richard Fuller joined rail campaigners for a rally and walk between Bedford’s Priory Country Park and Sandy on Saturday 29th June to show their support for the re-introduction of a rail link between Bedford and Cambridge. The event was organised by Rail Future and Campaign for Better Transport who are campaigning […]

Quotations are invited for the provision of consultancy services for the provision of specialist transport planning services for the East West Rail ‘Central Section’ project. The successful consultant will be invited to participate in discussions with East West Rail Consortium and Network Rail representatives with a view to the consultant subsequently being instructed to undertake […]

The East West Rail Consortium has welcomed the news that construction of the rail route between Oxford to Bicester is to proceed. This follows a High Court decision today which confirmed that Chiltern Railways has the necessary powers to build a new rail route between Oxford and London Marylebone, via Islip and Bicester. The new […]

On Thursday 25th April rail consultant Patrick O’Sullivan B.Sc (Hons), C.Eng., MICE, gave a talk on East West Rail at the AGM of the Railway Civil Engineers’ Association (RCEA) to an audience of 100 members. The talk was introduced by Neil Gibson, Strategic Director at Buckinghamshire County Council and former chair of the East West […]

At the January meeting of the Winslow and District Local Area Forum, there was a brief presentation about the East West Rail link that will see the re-introduction of the passenger railway linking Oxford and Bedford, Aylesbury and Milton Keynes via Winslow. This major project includes plans to build a new station for Winslow. People […]

Network Rail has announced its plan for construction of the western section of the East West Rail link between Bedford and Oxford, Aylesbury and Milton Keynes, as part of their five-year strategic business plan 2014-2019. The East West Rail Consortium, which includes all the local authorities along the proposed route, has successfully promoted the re-instatement […]