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Birmingham City Council, John Lewis and Network Rail have signed a Jobs and Skills Charter today which will help local people access more than 1,000 new jobs created by the development of the new Grand Central Birmingham shopping centre and Birmingham New Street station.

Network Rail refreshed and expanded the data available on its website’s transparency portal today: www.networkrail.co.uk/transparency

Rail Minister, Rt Hon Simon Burns MP, today saw the old and the new working in harmony at rail sites in York.

Another track record was broken over Christmas when Network Rail’s track renewal system enjoyed a rare period of unbroken work on the West Coast main line.

Speeds on part of the West Coast main line will be returning to 100mph after Network Rail and its contractors replaced the railway through a tunnel.

Punctuality on the railways reached 88.2% during Period 10, according to monthly performance data released today by Network Rail.

Network Rail has awarded EDF Energy a ten-year deal for the supply of low carbon electricity to power Britain’s growing electrified rail network.

Network Rail has begun work on a £45m project to upgrade the railway route and infrastructure between Swindon and Gloucester via Kemble and Stroud.