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UK’s Tram Train pilot set to achieve key milestones during Spring bank holiday
The Tram Train project in South Yorkshire will take a significant step towards completion in the coming weeks as construction work continues.
Rail freight industry and Network Rail collaborate to increase railway capacity
Timetable overhaul to potentially free-up thousands of slots for passenger services
A massive timetable shakeup is being implemented after Britain’s rail freight industry collaborated over a two-year, industry-wide review into more efficient freight operations. Together, Network Rail and freight operators identified 50 per cent of the reserved slots on the railway for freight trains were not being used and could potentially be given up for thousands of new passenger and freight services.
Network Rail submits final proposals to close or modify level crossings across Essex, Hertfordshire, Havering, Southend and Thurrock
Network Rail has applied to the Secretary of State for Transport for a Transport and Works Act Order (TWAO) to close or modify 61 level crossings across Essex, Hertfordshire, Havering, Southend and Thurrock.
Settle-Carlisle line reopens after orange army repairs to major landslip
- Network Rail engineers complete most challenging railway repair ever
- Northern train services resume on world’s most iconic railway
- Flying Scotsman, the world’s best-loved steam train, marks the occasion
North Wales residents to learn more about level crossing improvements as railway upgrade continues
Network Rail is inviting North Wales residents to a drop-in event to learn more about how Tyn Y Morfa level crossing, near Prestatyn, will be modernised as part of Network Rail's Railway Upgrade Plan.
£15m Easter modernisation work to bring major improvements for rail passengers in Bath
A major programme of work to modernise the Great Western Mainline this Easter will see platforms at Bath Spa station widened in preparation for longer trains providing over a fifth more seats for passengers.
Glasgow Queen Street on track for platform extension works
As part of Glasgow Queen Street station’s redevelopment, work will begin next week on a project to prepare for the extension of platform 1.
South East runs on rail: New figures show the full extent of the rail industry’s contribution to Kent and south east London
- Network Rail supports around 39,547 local jobs in the South East and last year £1.94 billion was spent with 646 local businesses
- Southeastern employs more than 4,000 people and has raised more than £23,000 for local charity the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust
- Improvements being delivered in the South East include: the Thameslink Programme –which is building a new station at London Bridge; a new station building at Strood in Kent; a new platform at Redhill, and better journey times between Ramsgate and Ashford
- Improvements already delivered since 2014 include a completely new station in Rochester, Kent and new signalling through the Medway Towns
- £100 million is spent every single week by Network Rail on improving the railway in Britain
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