A £17m Rail Operating Centre and Infrastructure Maintenance Delivery Unit has been handed over to Network Rail.

The new facilities were built by Morgan Sindall and are located in Rugby.

They provide a base from which Network Rail's operations for the southern areas of its London North Western route will be coordinated, as well as accommodating personnel and control equipment. The London North Western route incorporates all of the West coast mainline, Chiltern Railways and the regional railways of the North West.

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Built to a BREEAM (Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology) standard of Very Good, the state-of-the-art three-storey building is circa 100 metres long by 25 metres wide; and only 3 metres from the West Coast Main Line.

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