East West Rail is a major project to establish a strategic railway connecting East Anglia with Central, Southern and Western England. In particular, it plans to build (or rebuild) a line linking Oxford and Cambridge via Bicester, Milton Keynes (at Bletchley) and Bedford, largely using the trackbed of the former Varsity Line. Thus it provides a route between any or all of the Great Western, Chiltern, West Coast, Midland, East Coast, West Anglia, Great Eastern and the Cotswold main lines, avoiding London. The new line will provide a route for potential new services between Southampton Central and Ipswich or Norwich via Reading, Didcot and Ely, using existing onward lines. The government approved the western section (from Oxford to Bedford) in November 2011, with completion of this section expected by 2025. As of January 2019, the company aims to complete the central section by "the mid 2020s". As of March 2020, electrification of the line is not planned, but the 2019 decision (to rule it out) is under review. The plan is divided into three sections: More information...
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