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

Councillors and business leaders from across Manchester and Salford last night viewed Network Rail’s plans for improved rail travel in the North. At an event in the Museum of Science and Industry, the new Ordsall Chord, a scheme to connect Manchester’s Piccadilly, Oxford Road and Victoria stations, was unveiled to stakeholders ahead of this week’s public consultation.

A new 1000 tonne bridge which links all platforms at East Croydon station has been slid into position.

Network Rail has seen 18 of its former apprentices graduate from Sheffield Hallam University with Higher National Certificates (HNC) in railway engineering – the first to do so following a decision to support the best and brightest by providing the opportunity to continue their learning and gain additional qualifications in their specialist field.

Network Rail has seen 18 of its former apprentices graduate from Sheffield Hallam University with higher national certificates (HNC) in railway engineering – the first to do so following a decision to support the best and brightest by providing the opportunity to continue their learning and gain additional qualifications in their specialist field.

Autumn leaves add a touch of reality to trees painted on a bridge over the railway line between Bournville and Kings Norton stations.

Blooming lovely when spring arrives.

That’s because they are all planters, made by local students in conjunction with Network Rail, Arm4 and other organisations working on the station refurbishment project.

Network Rail Consulting, the international consultancy arm of Network Rail, announces today the appointment of one of Britain’s top transport business leaders, Keith Ludeman as a non-executive director.