Consultation on the draft Anglia route study is open until 3 February 2015 with the final version of the document expected to be published in summer 2015. The study will then be used to inform the Department for Transport’s strategy for the industry’s next funding period from 2019 through to 2024.
The study looks at the main lines from London Liverpool Street to Norwich and Cambridge and their respective branch lines, as well as the lines from London Fenchurch Street to Shoeburyness and Felixstowe to Peterborough via Ely, and how to build upon improvements already planned for the coming years, including the completion of Crossrail, the rebuilding of key junctions, renewed overhead lines and upgraded signalling. Potential options to increase capacity on the North London Line and the line from Gospel Oak to Barking are examined including additional platforms at either Gospel Oak or Barking and running longer trains on the North London line.
Network Rail published plans to make sure the railway in the east of England can continue to accommodate the huge growth in demand from passengers and freight over the next thirty years.
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