Work to end rail bottleneck

Train services in Cornwall are to be improved with the multi-million pound upgrade of rail lines.

The government has said eight miles of single-track line between Probus and Burngallow will be extended to two tracks.

Work on the £15m project will begin in the winter of next year and will be finished by 2006.

Objective One funding, which gives European cash to low-income areas, is providing £3m and the Strategic Rail Authority is putting in £12m.

Cornwall has been lobbying for the upgrade for years.

The improvements will cure a bottleneck on the Penzance to London line.

However, another stretch of single track, between Truro and Falmouth, will not be upgraded.