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Rail Minister Chris Heaton-Harris has today (9 December 2021) officially opened the Werrington Tunnel which carries freight trains underneath the busy

Future of Rail | Completing the UK’s first curved box jack Driving the UK’s first curved box jack for a new rail dive under has just been completed on the East Coast Main Line.  Freight trains will be the first to benefit from major engineering work at Werrington just north of Peterborough on the East Coast Main Line (ECML) when work finishes in November. Capacity benefits for passenger traffic will be realised when the next timetable change comes into force in May next year, but the effec...