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Motorists using Longpool and Shap road in Kendal should allow extra time for their journeys from January as Network Rail starts a major project to spruce up Longpool railway bridge in the town.

A year on since the floods in 2012, Network Rail has invested around £5m in a combination of resilient measures to help protect the railway around Devon from weather impact.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has today announced a statistical change to its classification of Network Rail as a result of changes in European accounting guidelines.

One of two war memorial plaques from Birmingham New Street station has been donated by Network Rail to the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire for display as part of its valued collection of over 300 memorials.

Network Rail has kickstarted its infrastructure investment plans for London and the south east for the next five years by nominating four preferred suppliers for contracts worth a total of £1.2bn.

Network Rail has confirmed that it is seeking to close the footpath crossing over the railway at Bailey Lane, Grange-over-Sands. A request for a rail crossing diversion order to allow the crossing to permanently close has been made to Cumbria County Council today.

Energlyn and Churchill Park, a new railway station in the Caerphilly county borough, was officially opened today by the Minister for Transport, Edwina Hart.

With 67,000 people qualified to work trackside on Britain’s railways, keeping track of everyone and keeping them safe has never been so important.