The incredible £30m new UK bridge that's just opened over a train line

Construction costs rose to almost three times the 2021 estimates (Image: Northumberland County Council ) A new £30 million road bridge has opened as part of the final stages of a £300 million project building a new railway line in the north of the UK. Newsham Bridge forms part of the highly-anticipated 18-mile-long Northumberland Line linking Newcastle and Ashington, with passenger services to resume on the updated railway nearly 60 years after the track was closed. But the Newcastle ChronicleLive reports plans for people to use the line this summer have now been put back until December after the project became mired in delays and soaring costs.

The total bill for the line is now expected to cost just under £300 million, £130 more than initially anticipated, which works out at a cost-per-mile of track of around £16 million. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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