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TRANSPORT Minister will visit St Albans City Station next week to celebrate completion of its extended platforms as part of a £5.5 billion Thameslink upgrade programme.
The rail project, managed by Network Rail and funded by the Government, has seen platforms at the station extended to accommodate 50 per cent longer trains.
St Albans is the third station on the Thameslink route now ready for a fleet of 12 carriage trains due to enter the service in December. Luton Airport Parkway and Mill Hill Broadway have also seen their platforms extended by about 80 metres to accommodate longer and more frequent trains.
In total 12 stations will benefit from the scheme, which will create 4km of new platform and carriage space across the entire route.
Teresa Villiers will attend the station, in Station Way, to mark the significant milestone in providing the city with congestion-busting trains.