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Yup, this is my old stamping ground.
The Western bore of Gasworks had become traffic-limited because the Up & Down Slow lines feeding it are now also used by the many Thameslink services coming and going through Canal tunnels.
This in turn had pushed the Faster Great Northern services (Peterborough - KGX, and Kings Lynn/Cambridge - KGX) into what was the UP & Down Fast lines the Central bore, clogging up the ECML Long Distance services.
Now that it's been completed, the ECML trains can use the Eastern Bore for their dedicated Eastern side platforms.
There's been quite a lot of 'de-complicating' the turnouts in the station throat.
Here's a photo of the contractors 'playing in the sand' outside Platforms 0-8, which I borrowed from the Kings Cross drivers Facebook page
Credit is to Joanna@Jay_Tee71 via twitter
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