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Passengers Have Been Urged To Plan Their Journeys Over The Christmas Period As Railway Engineers Take On A Project Dubbed BritainS Biggest Christmas Jigsaw. Hanslope Junction - Located 56 Miles North Of London Euston And Seven Miles From Milton Keynes - Is A Vital Section Of Railway. The Junction Carries More Than 3,300 Passenger And Freight Services A Week But Is Set To Be Transformed By A Ps26M Improvement Programme. Beginning On Christmas Eve, Network Rail Teams Will Be Taking On BritainS Biggest Christmas Jigsaw Puzzle, Replacing 130 Track Pieces Across The Junction. Work Also Includes Strengthening The Foundations Below The Track, As Well As Overhauling Points, Switches And Crossings. 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. The Work Means That Journeys To And From London Euston Will Be Affected From Christmas Eve Until The Morning Of 5 January. To Make The Most Of The Closure, While Trains ArenT Running Between Milton Keynes And Rugby Or Milton Keynes And Northampton, Engineers Will Deliver Additional Improvements, Including: Gary Walsh, Network RailS Route Director For The West Coast South Route, Said: These Upgrades To The West Coast Main Line Will Make The Railway More Reliable And Safer For Many Years To Come. We Appreciate Passengers Patience While This Work Takes Place. If You Plan To Travel During The Christmas Period, I Would Urge You To Plan Your Journeys As Early As Possible And Check In With National Rail Enquiries For The Last Information On Services. Travel Advice To Carry Out These Upgrades Safely, There Will Be No Trains Between Milton Keynes And Northampton/Rugby For Eleven Consecutive Days From The Evening Of 24 December Until The Morning Of 5 January. Follow Up Work Will Take Place On Sundays 11 And 25 January To Complete Essential Tamping (Compacting Of The Stones Beneath The New Track That Give Stability) And Drainage Work. On These Days There Will Be No Trains Between Milton Keynes And Northampton/Rugby. Passengers Are Advised To: For The Latest Travel Information, Visit . For More Information On Our Work At Hanslope Junction, Visit Our Website Here: Passengers / Community Members Network Rail National Helpline 03457 11 41 41 Latest Travel Advice Please Journalists Network Rail Press Office - North West & Central Region 0330 854 0100 We Own, Operate And Develop BritainS Railway Infrastructure; ThatS 20,000 Miles Of , 30,000 And The Thousands Of , Level Crossings And Stations. We Run 20 Of The UkS Largest While All The Others, Over 2,500, Are Run By The CountryS . 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 , So We Carefully Manage And Deliver Thousands Of Projects Every Year That Form Part Of The , 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: Visit Our Online Newsroom:
