UK rapper Wretch 32 and spoken word performer George the Poet have put their hearing to the test in a unique experiment as part of a new Network Rail safety campaign aimed at young men called Track Tests.

Network Rail’s freight team are celebrating after the company won three awards – including the prestigious Business of the Year award - from the Rail Freight Group (RFG).

Network Rail’s electrical control systems are to be overhauled and brought together under a new contract, changing the way the railway manages its power.

The first stage of work to connect two rail tunnels to the national network will take place this weekend in a development which will transform the shape of rail services in the south of England.

Network Rail has announced that Mark Carne, formerly executive vice president for the Middle East and North Africa for Royal Dutch Shell, is to be its next chief executive.

Network Rail today published its response to the Office of Rail Regulation’s draft determination for the period 2014 to 2019, CP5.

Network Rail refreshed the data available on its transparency portal today www.networkrail.co.uk/transparency

For the first time, all winners and commended entries from the Landscape Photographer of the Year Award’s special railway category will be displayed in a new exhibition at the National Railway Museum (NRM) in York, this November.