Through trains between Wrexham and Liverpool have been talked about for decades, but we’re now the closest we’ve ever come to it actually happening. CHRIS HOWE reports

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No revenue-earning services yet on Bicester-Bletchley section, while the planning and consent wheels grind slowly for Bedford-Cambridge

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Return of passenger services will support new homes and jobs in “public transport desert”

What are the busiest rail freight corridors? It depends how you measure them, as PAUL CLIFTON finds out