Network Rail is on the brink of completing work on a £48m project to switch the Loughor Viaduct near Swansea and redouble a 5.25-mile stretch of line running through Gowerton. The Gowerton redoubling project, funded by the Welsh Government in partnership with the South West Wales Integrated Transport Consortium (SWWITCH), will remove the present bottleneck created by the stretch of single line and supply capacity to run more trains at some point. The new deck has now been launched around the Loughor estuary and secured in its temporary alignment. The present deck would be removed at Easter and the recent deck slid into place. Mark Langman, route managing director, Wales, said: “This project joins plenty of other rail improvement projects in South and West Wales so that they can help...
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