There is a need to extend the life of many existing railway bridges. To facilitate this is one of the objects of the EC-FP7-Project MAINLINE, covering a period from 2011 to 2014. New or improved technologies are investigated to help with this. For bridges, the most promising techniques are enhanced inspection, assessment and strengthening methods. Case studies are presented where three different strengthening techniques have been applied to existing concrete trough bridges. First, sawn in Near Surface Mounted Reinforcement (NSMR) of Carbon Fibre Reinforce Polymers (CFRP) are used; followed by a bridge where carbon fibre cables were drilled through the bridge and finally a bridge was strengthened with post tensioned bars in drilled holes through the slab in the transverse direction. All three methods proved to be very successful.