Published:
9:57 AM January 23, 2021
Updated:
12:25 PM January 23, 2021
The proposed direct rail links between Norwich, Ipswich, Cambridge and Oxford in the Eastern Section’ prospectus. Picture: East West Rail Consortium
- Credit: East West Rail Consortium
A multi-million pound project to restore rail routes axed more than 50 years ago could pave the way for better connectivity for Norfolk and Suffolk.
The Department for Transport (DfT) said £760m will support the next phase of East West Rail to reinstate services between Bicester, Oxfordshire and Bletchley, Buckinghamshire for the first time since 1968.
The project is part of a wider wish-list that could unlock faster journey times and more services between Norwich and Cambridge, and Ipswich and Cambridge, as well as direct links to Oxford.
A train leaving Oxford station. Picture: Jon Lewis A £760m fund will be spent to break ground on a new railway link between Oxford and Cambridge. The cash from the Department of Transport will be used to lay track along a disused railway line between Bicester and Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, with services beginning in 2025. The whole project, known as East-West Rail, could be completed by the end of the decade according to a government minister overseeing it. And Chris Heaton Harris added that it may also mean that the Oxford to Cambridge Expressway, a ‘paused’ project for a major road between the two university cities, remains ‘paused for a very long time’ if people ‘vote with their feet’ and choose to use trains to travel instead of private cars.
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