East Western Rail between Milton Keynes & Bicester

[@1258-Eckhart]

Warms the cockles of your heart seeing a railway being recommissioned.

[@nanba25]

very nice video, very nice and appropriate music. What a nice countryside it is, somewhat unchanged since 50 years it seems, but so few cattle to be seen, although there is a plenty of grass…

[@richardlittle6013]

It will be good when building work starts on the Bedford to Cambridge section.

[@KimTebrok]

Beats more road building. Far more sustainable & allows time for travellers to chill out & enjoy the experience of travel through the beautiful countryside.

[@johnjephcote7636]

I remember the Motorway building boom in the early seventies; the first since the M1 in 1959. Everywhere I travelled there were these immensely wide carvings up of the landscape, far wider than a two track rail line and no great protests or talk of tunnels and green corridors then!

[@EdgyNumber1]

3:07 Interesting, I wonder where that section linked to, on the left.

[@danielholden-storey5107]

that's the line from Buckingham and Banbury

[@christye6013]

Looks like there are some drainage issues to deal with there

[@Andrewjg_89]

Be glad when it does reopen in few years.

[@None-zc5vg]

It'll be more than a few years and at a huge cost.

[@scottpeacock5492]

@@None-zc5vg This is the Bicester Bletchley and Aylesbury line being reinstated, will be reopen in 2024, Track laying is due to start in 2022.

[@andrewjames3908]

is 1:28 the location for the new Winslow station?

[@johnchurch4705]

At 3.00 there looks like another old line joining to this line, anymore information on that please?

[@richardcrouch356]

when weather gets better i plan on going back and see what else they have done

[@nicasionohart]

Beauuuuuutiful landscape!!!! Wow how did you shoot the video? Amazing!!!! I love it !!!! ❤️👍🏻

[@richardcrouch356]

by use of a Drone

[@stephaniemariedearden9344]

Is this the Varsity Line?

[@mohatchett8001]

what is the music with this flim

[@richardcrouch356]

its what was standard on the programme i used to edit the footage

[@mohatchett8001]

I did some searching and its called drift by kuyani but thank you

[@robtyman4281]

Will this section of the new line only be single track then???

[@ds1868]

@Rob Tyman Nope it will be double track and rated for top speed of 100mph. It was originally double track, reduced to single track after the cuts in the 1960s but will return to double track. Lots of work needed though many bridges are being rebuilt and the earth works stabilised and a brand new station at Winslow. Plus a brand new flyover at Bletchley This is why it's costing over £1 billion for this section alone.

[@dahliagreen5919]

@@ds1868 Thanks for adding this information. Do you know if any part of the route will reuse any of the former Varsity line trackbed? I heard Starmer indicated funding for other lost routes, which will be needed when petrol car sales phase out and affordability/limitations of electric become an issue for many.

[@ds1868]

@@dahliagreen5919 Hello, the former Varsity line track bed is being used all the way from Oxford to Bedford. The video you see here is one of the mothballed sections between Bicester and Bletchley. However the section between Bedford and Cambridge will be completely new. This is due to the fact that sections of the former track bed have been built over. Either way the entire route between Oxford and Cambridge will built for 100mph running. For an idea of how the entire route will look like take a look at the completed section between Oxford and Bicester: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m6bIcmOFZ7Ganrc

[@dahliagreen5919]

@@ds1868 Thank you very much. I had wondered a lot about the route, because of development around Bedford especially, and near Sandy. From there to Cambridge it's relatively clear with a few exceptions. The former Bedford-Hitchin line was under discussion some years ago, but apparently dropped as a partial duplication of the re-sited varsity line.

[@gerardburton1081]

I can see a lot of freight traffic using this line.

[@alanrobertson9790]

A lot easier than walking. Those power lines made me nervous,

[@alistairshaw3206]

It will be great to see trains on this reopened section of railway, the Beeching cuts should never have happened.

[@richardcrouch356]

still a long way of yet still a lot of work to be done

[@ds1868]

Beeching was not responsible for the closure of this line. The report specifically stated it should remain open. Declining usage and high maintenance costs led to closure.

[@medwaymodelrailway7129]

Like the video.

[@nigelkthomas9501]

So it’s actually gonna happen then is it? I thought this was all still a pipe dream.

[@ianwallis6473]

It’s in construction - within next 5 years for completion (think it’s less though). Bedford to Cambridge tbc

[@ds1868]

@@ianwallis6473 the route option Bedford to Cambridge has been confirmed. The biggest headache at the moment is upgrading the Bletchley to Bedford section called the Marston Vale line. Two main options for this but either way the budget to upgrade this section and rebuild Bedford station will be huge.

[@EdgyNumber1]

So, single track or dual track?

[@richardcrouch356]

not sure yet will take more pictures when they actually start more work

[@EdgyNumber1]

@@richardcrouch356 Just seen that viaduct/flyover up by Bletchley/Milton Keynes(?)... I'm shocked that this has gotten on so far. Very impressed.

[@ds1868]

It will be dual track.

[@EdgyNumber1]

@@ds1868 I hope they future proof it so that electrification can be added at a later date.

[@davemills6881]

Hope Beeching is turning in his grave. One more line returning to use. How long before the Beverley - York line is available once again?

[@johnfrankporter2330]

It wasn’t Beeching, he recommended that the Varsity line be kept open, it was Barbara Castle who closed it

[@nigelkthomas9501]

Instead of just running Oxford-Cambridge why not extend to Stansted Airport and Bristol, or even further west.

[@mikehindson-evans159]

Once you get to Cambridge (Main), the existing XC service runs to STN regularly. It's the "getting to Cambridge" solution that is most problematic, with the original "Varsity Line" formation built over - hence the consultation about going through the new and emerging settlements around Camborne.

[@ianwallis6473]

Trains connect west to Didcot Parkway and onto the great western mainline to Bristol (and so Somerset, Devon, Cornwall, etc), Cardiff. If they want, trains could run from Penzance to Great Yarmouth in the future using this route

[@None-zc5vg]

@@ianwallis6473 I used the Bletchley-Oxford section of this railway in the late '60s, just before it was closed. There wasn't much patronage for the d.m.u.'s that ran along it.

[@volvos60bloke]

ALL POSSIBLE NOW ARE BREXIT IS DONE !!!