| £45m rail improvements complete |
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| Tuesday, 27 May 2008 | |
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A £45m rail improvement programme, which took place over the bank holiday has reached completion. The biggest projects included: * Further work to upgrade the West Coast mainline, enabling millions more people to use the railway each year and leading to a journey time reduction of 56 minutes from London to Glasgow * Platform extensions at Luton Airport Parkway, helping create more and faster journeys to London as part of the £5.5bn Thameslink Programme * Track and signalling works at Merthyr and Newport, improving journeys for people across Wales and South West England * Ongoing infrastructure improvement work at Hull Docks enabling 20 extra freight trains to serve Humber Ports daily - taking up to 1,000 lorries off the roads every day |
