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Disused railway line in Buckingham to be upgraded as an active travel route

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March 28, 2024
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Buckinghamshire Council has secured funding to improve the trackbed of a former railway line so that it is suitable as a walking, wheeling, and cycling cross-town link in Buckingham.

There’s Light at the Northern end of HS2’s longest tunnel

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March 23, 2024
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Tunnel Boring Machine ‘Cecilia’ brakes-through at the northern end of the Chiltern tunnel, marking the end of tunnelling.

HS2 release images of Buckinghamshire ‘green bridge’

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March 12, 2024
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The images reveal how the eco-friendly bridge will look once complete as it crosses the new railway close to the village of Turweston near Brackley

HS2 quantity at Quainton: 646 freight trains move a million tonnes

Simon Walton
March 7, 2024
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HS2, Britain’s high-speed rail project, is buried in statistics. However, there is one statistic that burrows its way out from all the others. 646 freight trains have delivered one million tonnes of construction materials to the HS2 construction site at Quainton, around fifty miles (80km) north of London Euston – or 45 miles north of […]

Buckinghamshire railway line reopens after landslip

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March 7, 2024
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Network Rail have repaired a landslip near Stoke Mandeville, which sees trains running once more between Amersham and Aylesbury

Book Review: Going East, the Story of East West Rail and the Oxford-Cambridge Line by K.C. Close and R.J. Cook

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March 2, 2024
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This book tells the story of the line from Oxford to Cambridge, from its beginnings through partial closure to the current plans to reopen it.