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The votes have been counted and the result verified – Birmingham New Street’s new bull will be called ‘Ozzy’ after a nationwide competition to find him a permanent name.

Artificial intelligence software is helping Network Rail find and remove forgotten scrap materials from the side of the railway more quickly and safely than ever before.

The Levenmouth Rail Link project today (21 June) played host to new S2 students from Levenmouth Academy participating in a day of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) workshops.

Industry partners in the transformational East Coast Digital Programme (ECDP) have signed a £32.7million contract to upgrade the Class 700 Thameslink fleet to the latest specification of European Train Control System (ETCS). The five-year contract was signed by Cross London Trains, DfT, Govia Thameslink Railway, Network Rail and Siemens Mobility.

Network Rail is launching its masterplanning process at Bow Goods Yard, East London, which will see the regeneration of over 30 acres of brownfield land.

Rail passengers are being advised about a six-month long project to completely rebuild platform 3 at Lichfield Trent Valley station to improve future journeys.

Rail passengers are being advised of changes to journeys over nine days in July while engineers invest millions of pounds improving future journeys on the West Coast main line through Staffordshire.

Here’s how engineers installed 3.2km of new track, 5,200 new sleepers and 13000 tonnes of ballast -over a ten-day period - in one of the most challenging environments on our railway.