📋 Tender Overview
Passengers Are Being Thanked For Their Patience After The Biggest Track Upgrade On BritainS Railway Network This Festive Period. Over 14 Days From Christmas Eve, Four Railway Lines Along A Mile-Long Section Of Track Between Milton Keynes And Northampton Were Replaced To Improve Future Journeys For Passengers And Freight On The West Coast Main Line. Network Rail And Its Partner Central Rail Systems Alliance Spent Nearly A Year Planning And Preparing For The Work At Hanslope Junction* Which Is Used By Up To 500 Trains Per Day. Hundreds Of Workers Replaced 130 Track Panels Across The Junction - Described As BritainS Biggest Christmas Jigsaw - Renewed The Foundation Stone Known As Ballast Below The Track, And Overhauled Points, Switches And Crossings. Today (Monday 5 January) Network Rail Has Released Trackside Footage Of The First Trains Travelling Over The Modernised Infrastructure Shortly After All Lines Reopened At 4Am. The Ps26M Project Was Just One Of A Swathe Of Journey Improving Upgrades Between London And Cumbria Over The Festive Season. During The 11 Days Of Improvement Work, Teams Made The Most Of The Railway Closure By Completing Additional Projects On Network RailS West Coast South Route, Including: On The Northern Stretch Of BritainS Busiest Mixed-Use Passenger And Freight Lines, Other Major Projects Included: The Clifton Bridge Project Means The Railway Remains Closed Between Oxenholme And Carlisle Until January 15. The Christmas And New Year Work Has Seen A Combined Investment Of Nearly Ps200M On The West Coast Main Line, Which Forms Part Of A Much Larger Ps400M Investment Over The Next Four Years. Christian Irwin Obe, Network Rail North West And Central Region Capital Delivery Director, Said: We Are Investing Hundreds Of Millions Of Pounds To Improve Future Journeys On The West Coast Main Line And These Latest Projects Will Make Real Differences To Passenger And Freight Journeys. We Would Like To Thank Passengers For Their Patience During Our Work At Hanslope, Milton Keynes And Wolverton Stations, And Also Across The Wider Network This Festive Season. With Our Major Bridge Renewal In Cumbria Continuing Until 15 January, WeD Like To Remind People To Check Before They Travel While We Make The Railway Fit For The Future. Jonny Wiseman, Customer Experience Director For London Northwestern Railway, Said: We Are Grateful For Our Passengers Patience While Network Rail Carried Out These Essential Engineering Works To Futureproof Our Railway. WeRe Pleased The Line Has Now Reopened As Planned And Our Normal Timetable Is Now Back In Operation. Back At Hanslope In The Coming Weeks, Routine Follow Up Work Will Take Place On Sunday 11 And 25 January To Secure The New Railway Foundation Stone Through A Process Called Tamping, As Well As Some Additional Drainage Work. On Those Two Sundays There Will Be No Trains Between Milton Keynes And Northampton/Rugby. And, Due To The Ongoing Improvement Work At Clifton, Journeys From Euston To Destinations North Of Preston Will Be Impacted Until Wednesday 14 January. For Further Updates On All Our Our West Coast Main Line Improvement Work You Can Follow Us On X @Networkrailwcml . To Plan Rail Journeys In Advance Please Us Www.Nationalrail.Co.Uk For The Latest Travel Information. *Hanslope Junction, Located 56 Miles North Of London Euston And Seven Miles From Milton Keynes, A Vital Section Of Railway Carrying More Than 3,300 Passenger And Freight Services A Week. But, In The Last Five Years, Faults On This Crucial Railway Junction Have Caused More Than 11,000 Minutes Of Delays - Equivalent To More Than A WeekS Worth Of Disruption - So This Upgrade Will Improve Reliability And Reduce Disruption For Passengers. Passengers / Community Members Network Rail National Helpline 03457 11 41 41 Latest Travel Advice Please Visit National Rail Enquiries Journalists Network Rail Press Office - North West & Central Region 0330 854 0100 Nwcmediarelations@Networkrail.Co.Uk We Own, Operate And Develop BritainS Railway Infrastructure; ThatS 20,000 Miles Of Track , 30,000 Bridges, Tunnels And Viaducts And The Thousands Of Signals , Level Crossings And Stations. We Run 20 Of The UkS Largest Stations While All The Others, Over 2,500, Are Run By The CountryS Train Operating Companies . Usually, There Are Almost Five Million Journeys Made In The Uk And Over 600 Freight Trains Run On The Network. People Depend On BritainS Railway For Their Daily Commute, To Visit Friends And Loved Ones And To Get Them Home Safe Every Day. Our Role Is To Deliver A Safe And Reliable Railway , So We Carefully Manage And Deliver Thousands Of Projects Every Year That Form Part Of The Multi-Billion Pound Railway Upgrade Plan , To Grow And Expand The NationS Railway Network To Respond To The Tremendous Growth And Demand The Railway Has Experienced - A Doubling Of Passenger Journeys Over The Past 20 Years. Follow Us On Twitter: @Networkrail Visit Our Online Newsroom: Www.Networkrailmediacentre.Co.Uk
