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talk it up
With all the focus on Network Rail's improvements to the West Coast main line, which should, by January 2009, reduce the journey time from Oxenholme (Lake District) to London to 2 hours 34 minutes, a big commitment has just been made by Network Rail for the East Coast main line. They will be spending £225 million upgrading track parallel to the East Coast main line between Peterborough and Doncaster, allowing freight to come off the main line on that section, currently a bottleneck where the track goes down from 4 to 2 lines. A look at the network map shows what a great idea this is. However the work is not scheduled until 2014. This plan needs talking up: it would be great to see work begin as soon as possible after resources are freed up from the west coast.
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