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Two rail lines closed in 1960s to receive £800m investment boost
Two railway lines closed to passengers more than 50 years ago will be brought back to life with almost £800m The post Two rail lines closed in 1960s to receive £800m investment boost appeared first on CityAM.
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- French plead for Whitehall’s help to avoid Eurostar ‘catastrophe’ [Subscription]France is piling pressure on the British government to back Eurostar via export credit guarantees, as the cross-Channel operator struggles for survival.
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- Two rail lines closed in 1960s to receive £800m investment boostTwo railway lines closed to passengers more than 50 years ago will be brought back to life with almost £800m The post Two rail lines closed in 1960s to receive £800m investment boost appeared first on CityAM.
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- Two rail lines shut in 1960s will reopen as transport officials pledge £800millionThe DfT said £760 million will support the next phase of East West Rail to reinstate services between Bicester, Oxfordshire and Bletchley, Buckinghamshire for the first time since 1968.
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- Rail re-opening projects in South and North East get funding of almost £800mThe next phase of the East West Rail line gets £760m while a project in Northumberland receives £34m
- Devon cliff railway makes another engineering first with ultrafast broadbandProblem-solving engineers install ultrafast broadband at Lynton and Lynmouth Cliff Railway
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Northern Echo
- Trains: £34m for revival of 50-year-old North-East railway line A £34 MILLION investment to reopen a North-East rail route that closed more than 50 years ago has been announced by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps.
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- £760m will lay new track for trains to CambridgeA £760m fund will be spent to break ground on a new railway link between Oxford and Cambridge.
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