Network Rail said the current station at Bromsgrove cannot be developed because there is no space and it is sited directly on the main line.

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This is the time saved by those people using high speed instead of medium speed (and the current rail network between the proposed points is medium, not low, speed) transport.

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However, Network Rail said the current working patterns were agreed in 2007 and a review of the shifts carried out jointly with the RMT found no way of implementing 12-hour shifts without significantly increasing costs.

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