Transport department launches toolkit for better-value rail projects

By Jordan Marshall2021-08-16T05:00:00

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Network Rail and the Office of Rail and Road also worked on new platform

The Department for Transport, with Network Rail and the Office of Rail and Road, have launched a toolkit to help deliver better-value rail projects – in the wake of high-profile schemes hitting headlines for all the wrong reasons.

In recent years Crossrail has been a headache for both the DfT and Transport for London, with the still-unfinished scheme more than £2bn over budget almost three years after it was meant to be open.

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