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Double Delight for Cotswold MP on Gloucestershire’s Railways

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Date: April 24, 2008

Cotswolds MP Geoffrey Clifton-Brown and Peter Luff MP for Mid Worcestershire met with senior representatives from Network Rail on Wednesday to discuss the re-doubling of both the Cotswold and Swindon to Kemble railway lines.
The MPs were informed that an in-depth feasibility study had been undertaken on both lines, which highlighted not only the weakness in [...]

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Double Delight for Cotswold MP on Gloucestershire’s Railways


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One Response to “Double Delight for Cotswold MP on Gloucestershire’s Railways”

  1. Chris Mansfield Says:

    The plans to increase capacity on both the Oxford - Worcester and Swindon - Gloucester routes is most welcome. Could I just correct one inaccuracy in your article. The Swindon to Kemble line was double track until the 1960s. I think the engineering challenge might be that the remaining line has been slewed over all of the existing formation so it will need to be moved to one side to enable a second line to be put in along side it.

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