The nightmare of noise, traffic barriers and street closures began on December 20 and finally ended when families on the Agar Grove estate woke up on Monday morning with the more gentle rumble' of trains running past their homes again.
Network Rail doubled up' while the line was closed for another scheme to create a new underpass beneath the tracks at Radlett in Hertfordshire while the Agar Grove bridge was being replaced.
Engineers have now completed a 19 million scheme to replace the 160-year-old Agar Grove Bridge over the railway a-mile-and-a-half north of St Pancras station.
There is no perfect time to close a main-line railway. But the Christmas break provided the best chance with lower numbers of passengers.
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