Over all four days of the Easter weekend, the East Kent re-signalling team took over the railway between Longfield, Sittingbourne, and the Isle of Sheppey, to commission a brand-new system to control trains.

Passengers will benefit from a more reliable train service between Birmingham and Wolverhampton thanks to a £5m investment over the Easter weekend.

Network Rail today announced that David Waboso, capital programmes director at London Underground, will join the company as managing director, Digital Railway.

Network Rail has formed an official construction partnership to build the new Ordsall Chord in Manchester, which will help improve rail travel for commuters across the north of England.

A Network Rail community relations executive has helped to inspire young people from across Essex with hearing loss, when he gave a presentation to children at St Clere’s school in Stanford-Le-Hope this week.

• £30m of work completed as part of preparing the existing railway for the Crossrail programme in outer London, Berkshire and Essex
• Half of Network Rail’s £60m national Easter upgrades invested in delivering improvements for the Crossrail programme
• Click here to download a selection of images of the Easter work

Network Rail is urging residents and businesses to provide their views on plans for a new link connecting the rail network from the west to London Heathrow, ahead of the latest deadline for feedback of Monday 4 April.

Network Rail’s orange army successfully completed the planned upgrade of the railway in the Cardiff area over the Easter weekend and on Tuesday 29 March.