"The 26m project they'll be working on this Christmas is one of the biggest scheduled across the country: Hanslope Junction, a crucial part of the West Coast Main Line, which is wearing out. Each day almost 500 trains use it and an increasing number of faults are causing delays, the repercussions of which ripple throughout the network. Now, the whole thing, comprising four tracks, is to be re-laid."
"It's a giant and complicated jigsaw puzzle of 130 separate track panels - not something that can be done when trains are roaring up and down. So, it will leave passengers with no trains between Milton Keynes and Rugby and Milton Keynes and Northampton not just late on Christmas Eve and on Christmas Day (as is usually the case) but up until the morning of 5 January."
Large-scale rail engineering works are scheduled over the Christmas and New Year period, with crews carrying out major projects when passenger services are reduced. Hanslope Junction on the West Coast Main Line will have four tracks completely re-laid using 130 separate track panels because increasing faults and heavy daily traffic have caused delays across the network. The Hanslope work will suspend services between Milton Keynes and Rugby and between Milton Keynes and Northampton until the morning of 5 January, removing direct London Euston links to the north-west and Scotland for 11 days. Other upgrades, including signalling replacements, will close about 5% of the network.
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