Network Rail launched a public consultation on proposals to upgrade the railway between Bicester and Bedford and Milton Keynes and Princes Risborough.
This is part of the second phase of the East West Rail project to link Oxford to Bedford and Milton Keynes via Aylesbury and Princes Risborough to London Marylebone.
The work would involve upgrading and reconstructing underused and mothballed sections of the railway linking the Great Western, Chiltern, West Coast and Midland main lines north of London and providing a strategic east-west route connecting key centres.
Plans include a new station at Winslow, two new platforms at Bletchley, construction of 18 new overbridges, construction of 22 new footbridges/subways and changes to 97 railway crossings.
“I am really pleased to have delivered phase one of East-West Rail. A new service from Oxford to Marylebone, from late October, will be a great new option for people travelling to and from the capital”, Martin Frobisher, Network Rail route managing director, said.
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