A project milestone has been reached on the £1.5 billion A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme.

The first bridge beams have been lifted into place over the East Coast Main Line railway line.

The twin steel girders, weighing 100 tonnes each, will be joined by another three over the coming weeks to help to form part of a bridge carrying the new six-lane A14 Huntingdon bypass over the railway.

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A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon project director for Highways England, David Bray, said: "The successful installation of the first two bridge beams over the East Coast mainline is the culmination of two years of planning and the fact that the team was able to do this in around three hours is a credit to the level of expertise at our disposal on this project.

"We've just marked our first year of construction and we're a quarter of the way into our programme already."

The 21-mile, A14 upgrade scheme is on schedule for completion by the end of 2020.

(LM/CD)