UK rail infrastructure manager Network Rail (NR) has selected the Bedford – Sandy – Cambridge corridor as its preferred option for the central section of the East West Rail project. The project is ...

The East-West Rail Company believes the rail link will provide a £1.1bn boost to the economy. Work began on the 21-mile (33km) £760m Bicester to Bletchley stretch of the project in 2020.

Despite the challenges, the momentum is behind East West Rail. The government has firmly backed the project and many in the railway industry are keen to see the UK prove itself after the debacle ...

Lidlington's level crossing is at the heart of a number of proposals under the £5bn East-West rail project. It could be closed for 40 minutes every hour.

In his eyes, East West Rail "has been an utter disaster from start to finish". He says: "You can't be knocking down people's houses in Bedford, you can't carve up villages and introduce diesel ...

Arriva Group’s Chiltern Railways has been selected to operate the first stage of the East West Rail project linking Oxford and Cambridge. The Department for Transport (DfT) said on Tuesday it ...

East West Rail will be a train line directly connecting Oxford and Cambridge; The project is expected to cost between £4.5bn and £5.3bn; The Treasury said it could "unlock £103bn of growth ...

The UK Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps has given his approval for the work on the second phase of East West Rail to begin. Last year, the East West Railway Company proposed five route ...

The portion of phase one currently under construction is being built by the East West Rail Alliance, a consortium of Network Rail, Atkins, Laing O’Rourke and Volker Rail. In September 2021 Arcadis was ...

Councillors have hit out at East West Rail for being ‘frugal and economical with the truth’. The company was accused of ‘not being very transparent’ and leaving communities feeling ignored ...

A local campaign group is calling for the Bedford-Cambridge section of the East West Rail project to be scrapped. Cambridge Approaches said that the route would have a negative impact on residents ...

More than 3,000 people have attended East West Rail's in-person consultation events to date. The consultation began on November 14, and the events have been set up to inform the public about the ...