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Trains in Wiltshire are now running on top of old bottles, food packaging and other unwanted plastics, with the introduction of the first composite railway sleepers on Network Rail’s main line tracks.

A fully accessible Changing Places toilet facility is now available at London Euston station.

Network Rail partnered up with Bradninch Town Council and Bradninch Together to run the two-day training events.

Green-fingered volunteers have transformed flower planters for thousands of passengers returning to Birmingham New Street station.

For several weeks this winter, railway neighbours at Bobbing, near Sittingbourne, Kent, were living near a major construction project as Network Rail and suppliers Balfour Beatty, Seva and others got to grips with a landslip on the line to London.

A once in a generation investment is being made to improve railway signalling on a key section of the West Coast main line in the North West.

Passengers travelling on the south London lines into London Victoria can look forward to more reliable journeys after Network Rail delivered a bumper programme of upgrades over May and June. 

One of Network Rail’s senior engineers, who is leading on making the railway better for the Anglia region, wants to encourage other women to consider jobs in the rail industry, as part of International Women in Engineering Day (Wednesday 23 June).