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East West Rail

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East West Rail is a major project to establish a strategic railway connecting East Anglia with Central, Southern and Western England". [1]

91 relations: A5 road (Great Britain), Atkins (company), Aylesbury railway station, BBC News, Bedford, Bedford railway station, Bedfordshire, Bicester, Birmingham–Peterborough line, Bletchley, Bletchley railway station, Bow Brickhill, Brexit, Buckingham Group, Buckinghamshire, Buckinghamshire County Council, Cambridge, Cambridge – Milton Keynes – Oxford corridor, Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, Carillion, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Cherwell Valley line, Chiltern Main Line, Chiltern Railways, Chris Grayling, Claydon railway station, CrossCountry, Crossrail, Department for Transport, Didcot Parkway railway station, East Anglia, East Coast Main Line, East Suffolk line, Electric Spine, Expansion plans for Milton Keynes, Felixstowe branch line, George Osborne, Great Eastern Main Line, Great Western main line, Greater Anglia (train operating company), Hertford, Hertford East branch line, Hertford East railway station, Hertford Loop Line, Hertford North railway station, Ipswich, Ipswich Borough Council, Ipswich–Ely line, ITV Anglia, ..., Justine Greening, Laing O'Rourke, Marston Vale line, Marylebone station, Midland Main Line, Milton Keynes, Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, MKWeb, Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory, National Cycle Route 51, National Infrastructure Commission, Network Rail, Network Rail Control Periods, Newton Longville, Norwich, Oxford, Oxford railway station, Oxford to Cambridge Expressway, Oxford–Bicester line, Oxfordshire, Oxfordshire County Council, Peter Hendy, Philip Hammond, Proposed railway electrification in Great Britain, Rye House railway station, Ryle Telescope, Sandy railway station, South East England Development Agency, South East England Regional Assembly, Spring Statement, The Guardian, Track bed, Transport and Works Act 1992, Varsity Line, VolkerRail, West Anglia Main Line, West Coast Main Line, West Midlands Trains, Winslow railway station, Winslow, Buckinghamshire, Woburn Sands. Expand index (41 more) »

A5 road (Great Britain)

The A5 London Holyhead Trunk Road is a major road in England and Wales.

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Atkins (company)

WS Atkins plc (commonly known as Atkins) is a British multinational engineering, design, planning, architectural design, project management and consulting services company headquartered in London, UK.

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Aylesbury railway station

Aylesbury railway station is a railway station in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Bedford

Bedford is the county town of Bedfordshire, England.

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Bedford railway station

Bedford railway station (formerly Bedford Midland Road) is the larger of two railway stations in the town of Bedford in Bedfordshire, England.

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Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire (abbreviated Beds.) is a county in the East of England.

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Bicester

Bicester is a town and civil parish in the Cherwell district of northeastern Oxfordshire in England.

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Birmingham–Peterborough line

The Birmingham–Peterborough line is a cross-country railway line in the United Kingdom, linking Birmingham, and, via and.

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Bletchley

Bletchley is a constituent town of Milton Keynes, in the ceremonial county of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Bletchley railway station

Bletchley is a railway station that serves the southern parts of Milton Keynes, England (especially Bletchley itself), and the north-eastern parts of the Buckinghamshire district of Aylesbury Vale.

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Bow Brickhill

Bow Brickhill is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.

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Brexit

Brexit is the impending withdrawal of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU).

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Buckingham Group

Buckingham Group Contracting Ltd is a construction company located near Stowe, between Buckingham and Silverstone in north Buckinghamshire which operates throughout England and Wales.

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Buckinghamshire

Buckinghamshire, abbreviated Bucks, is a county in South East England which borders Greater London to the south east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north east and Hertfordshire to the east.

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Buckinghamshire County Council

Buckinghamshire County Council is the upper-tier local authority for the non-metropolitan county of Buckinghamshire, in England, the United Kingdom established in 1889 following the Local Government Act 1888.

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Cambridge

Cambridge is a university city and the county town of Cambridgeshire, England, on the River Cam approximately north of London.

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Cambridge – Milton Keynes – Oxford corridor

The Cambridge – Milton Keynes – Oxford corridor (formerly the Oxford-Cambridge Arc) is a notional arc of agricultural and urban land at about 80 km (about 50 miles) radius of London, in south central England.

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Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.), is an East Anglian county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west.

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Cambridgeshire Guided Busway

The Cambridgeshire Guided Busway, known locally as The Busway, connects Cambridge, Huntingdon and St Ives in the English county of Cambridgeshire.

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Carillion

Carillion plc was a British multinational facilities management and construction services company headquartered in Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom, prior to its liquidation, which began in January 2018.

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Chancellor of the Exchequer

The Chancellor and Under-Treasurer of Her Majesty's Exchequer, commonly known as the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or simply the Chancellor, is a senior official within the Government of the United Kingdom and head of Her Majesty's Treasury.

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Cherwell Valley line

The Cherwell Valley line is the railway line between and via.

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Chiltern Main Line

The Chiltern Main Line is an inter-urban, regional and commuter railway, part of the British railway system.

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Chiltern Railways

Chiltern Railways is a British train operating company owned by Arriva UK Trains that has operated the Chiltern Railways franchise since July 1996.

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Chris Grayling

Christopher Stephen Grayling (born 1 April 1962) is a British politician and author serving as the Secretary of State for Transport since July 2016, and as a member of the House of Commons since 2001.

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Claydon railway station

Claydon railway station is a former railway station on the 'Varsity Line' (former Oxford Cambridge line), that served the village of Steeple Claydon in Buckinghamshire.

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CrossCountry

CrossCountry (legal name XC Trains Limited) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by Arriva UK Trains, operating the New Cross Country franchise.

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Crossrail

Crossrail is a railway line under development in London and the home counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Essex, England.

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Department for Transport

The Department for Transport (DfT) is the government department responsible for the English transport network and a limited number of transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that have not been devolved.

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Didcot Parkway railway station

Didcot Parkway is a railway station serving the town of Didcot in Oxfordshire, England.

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East Anglia

East Anglia is a geographical area in the East of England.

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East Coast Main Line

The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is a major railway link between London and Edinburgh via Peterborough, Doncaster, York, Darlington, Durham and Newcastle; it is presently electrified along the whole route.

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East Suffolk line

The East Suffolk line is an un-electrified 49-mile secondary railway line running between Ipswich and Lowestoft in Suffolk, England.

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Electric Spine

The "Electric Spine" was the name for part of a, now largely cancelled, rolling programme of railway electrification projects in England initially estimated to cost £800 million, but later thought to cost close to £3 billion.

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Expansion plans for Milton Keynes

In January 2004, Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott announced the United Kingdom government's Expansion plans for Milton Keynes However, the change of government in 2010 and the abolition of the Regional Spatial Strategy (SE Plan) in 2012/13 saw these plans revoked and a planned expansion of up to 44,000 dwellings reduced to 28,000.

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Felixstowe branch line

The Felixstowe branch line is a railway branch line in Suffolk, England, that connects the Great Eastern Main Line to and its port.

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George Osborne

George Gideon Oliver Osborne (born 23 May 1971) is a British Conservative Party politician, who was Member of Parliament (MP) for Tatton from June 2001 until he stood down on 3 May 2017.

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Great Eastern Main Line

The Great Eastern Main Line (GEML, sometimes referred to as the East Anglia Main Line) is a major railway line on the British railway system which connects Liverpool Street station in central London with destinations in east London and the East of England, including,,,, and.

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Great Western main line

The Great Western main line is a main line railway in England, that runs westwards from London Paddington to.

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Greater Anglia (train operating company)

Greater Anglia (legal name Abellio East Anglia Limited) is a train operating company in Great Britain owned as a joint venture by Abellio, the international arm of the state-owned Dutch national rail operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen, and the Japanese company Mitsui.

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Hertford

Hertford is the county town of Hertfordshire, England, and is also a civil parish in the East Hertfordshire district of the county.

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Hertford East branch line

The Hertford East branch line is a railway line in Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom, running between Hertford East and.

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Hertford East railway station

Hertford East railway station is the northern terminus of the Hertford East branch line off the West Anglia Main Line in the east of England, and is located in the town of Hertford in Hertfordshire.

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Hertford Loop Line

The Hertford Line (also known colloquially as the Hertford Loop) is a branch of the East Coast Main Line, part of the Northern City Line commuter route to London for Hertford and other Hertfordshire towns and an occasional diversion route for the main line.

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Hertford North railway station

Hertford North railway station is one of two stations serving the town of Hertford in Hertfordshire, England with the other being Hertford East railway station.

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Ipswich

Ipswich is the county town of Suffolk, England, located on the estuary of the River Orwell, about north east of London.

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Ipswich Borough Council

Ipswich Borough Council is the Borough Council that covers Ipswich in Suffolk.

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Ipswich–Ely line

The Ipswich–Ely line is a railway line linking East Anglia to the English Midlands via Ely.

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ITV Anglia

ITV Anglia, previously known as Anglia Television or Anglia, is the ITV franchise holder for the East of England.

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Justine Greening

Justine Greening (born 30 April 1969) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Putney since 2005 and was the Secretary of State for Education from 2016 to 2018.

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Laing O'Rourke

Laing O'Rourke is a multinational construction company headquartered in Dartford, England, United Kingdom.

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Marston Vale line

The Marston Vale line (Network Rail route MD 140) is the community rail line between and in England, formerly part of the "Varsity line" between and.

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Marylebone station

Marylebone station is a Central London railway terminus and connected London Underground station in the Marylebone area of the City of Westminster.

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Midland Main Line

The Midland Main Line is a major railway line in England from London to Sheffield in the north of England.

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Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes, locally abbreviated to MK, is a large townAlthough Milton Keynes was specified to be a city in scale and the term "city" is used locally (inter alia to avoid confusion with its constituent towns), formally this title cannot be used.

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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is the UK Government department for Housing, communities and local government in England.

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MKWeb

This article describes a service that has been replaced.

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Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory

Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (MRAO), near Cambridge, is home to a number of large aperture synthesis radio telescopes, including the One-Mile Telescope, 5-km Ryle Telescope, and the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager.

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National Cycle Route 51

National Cycle Route 51 is an English long distance cycle route running broadly east-west connecting Colchester and the port of Harwich to Oxford via Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge, Bedford, Milton Keynes, Bicester, and Kidlington.

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National Infrastructure Commission

The UK National Infrastructure Commission was established on 5 October 2015 as the non-ministerial government department responsible for providing expert advice to HM Government on the pressing infrastructure challenges facing the United Kingdom.

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Network Rail

Network Rail is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Ltd, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the rail network in England, Scotland and Wales.

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Network Rail Control Periods

Network Rail Control Periods are the 5-year timespans into which Network Rail, the owner and operator of most of the rail infrastructure in Great Britain, works for financial and other planning purposes.

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Newton Longville

Newton Longville is a village and civil parish in the Aylesbury Vale district of Buckinghamshire, England.

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Norwich

Norwich (also) is a city on the River Wensum in East Anglia and lies approximately north-east of London.

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Oxford

Oxford is a city in the South East region of England and the county town of Oxfordshire.

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Oxford railway station

Oxford railway station is a mainline railway station serving the city of Oxford, England.

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Oxford to Cambridge Expressway

The Oxford to Cambridge Expressway is a proposed grade-separated dual carriageway between the A34 near Oxford and the A14 near Cambridge, via (or near) Milton Keynes.

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Oxford–Bicester line

The Oxford–Bicester line is a railway line linking Oxford and Bicester in Oxfordshire, England.

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Oxfordshire

Oxfordshire (abbreviated Oxon, from Oxonium, the Latin name for Oxford) is a county in South East England.

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Oxfordshire County Council

Oxfordshire County Council, established in 1889, is the county council, or upper-tier local authority, for the non-metropolitan county of Oxfordshire, in the South East of England, an elected body responsible for the most strategic local government services in the county.

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Peter Hendy

Sir Peter Gerard Hendy, CBE (born 19 March 1953) is the current chairman of Network Rail and was formerly the Commissioner of Transport for London.

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Philip Hammond

Philip Anthony Hammond (born 4 December 1955) is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Chancellor of the Exchequer since 13 July 2016 and the Member of Parliament (MP) for Runnymede and Weybridge since 1997.

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Proposed railway electrification in Great Britain

Proposed railway electrification in Great Britain.

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Rye House railway station

Rye House railway station is on the Hertford East branch line off the West Anglia Main Line in the east of England, serving the Rye House area of Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire.

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Ryle Telescope

The Ryle Telescope (named after Martin Ryle, and formerly known as the 5-km Array) was a linear east-west radio telescope array at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory.

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Sandy railway station

Sandy Railway Station serves the town of Sandy in Bedfordshire, England.

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South East England Development Agency

The South East England Development Agency (SEEDA), was one of a number of regional development agencies in England.

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South East England Regional Assembly

South East England Regional Assembly (SEERA) was the regional chamber for the South East England region of the England.

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Spring Statement

The Spring Statement of the British Government, also known as the "mini-budget", is one of the two statements HM Treasury makes each year to Parliament upon publication of economic forecasts.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Track bed

The track bed or trackbed is the groundwork onto which a railway track is laid.

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Transport and Works Act 1992

The Transport and Works Act 1992 (TWA) was established by the Parliament of the United Kingdom to provide a system by which the construction of rail transport, tramway, inland waterway and harbour infrastructure could proceed in the UK by order of the Minister of State for Transport rather than, as before, on the passing of a private bill.

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Varsity Line

The Varsity Line (or Oxford to Cambridge line) is the railway route that used to link the English university cities of Oxford and Cambridge, operated successively by the London and North Western Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway, and British Railways.

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VolkerRail

VolkerRail is a specialist railway infrastructure services company based in Doncaster, England, providing services across the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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West Anglia Main Line

The West Anglia Main Line is one of the two main lines from, the other being the Great Eastern Main Line to Ipswich and Norwich.

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West Coast Main Line

The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important railway corridors in the United Kingdom, connecting the major cities of London, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester, and Glasgow.

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West Midlands Trains

West Midlands Trains (WMT) is a train operating company in the United Kingdom that operates passenger trains on the West Midlands franchise between London and stations in the English Midlands.

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Winslow railway station

Winslow railway station is a former railway station which served the town of Winslow in north Buckinghamshire, England.

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Winslow, Buckinghamshire

Winslow is a market town and civil parish designated as a town council in the Aylesbury Vale district of north Buckinghamshire.

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Woburn Sands

Woburn Sands is a small town and civil parish in the Borough of Milton Keynes, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_West_Rail

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