• Network Rail spent over £800 million with over 200 local businesses last year
• £100 million spent every single week by Network Rail on improving the railway in Britain

• Network Rail supports over 12,000 local jobs in the West Midlands and last year £524.54 million was spent with over 340 local businesses
• London Midland customers have benefitted from over £400 million of investment - including four new stations in the West Midlands (Bromsgrove, Stratford upon Avon Parkway, Coventry Arena and Bermuda Park)
• £100 million spent every single week by Network Rail on improving the railway in Britain

South Wales passengers planning to travel over the weekend of Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 April 2017 are advised that no trains will be operating between Cardiff Central and Cardiff Queen Street stations.

Network Rail has completed three weekends of work at Waterloo to replace key sections of track as part of its Railway Upgrade Plan for a better railway for passengers.

For decades, Channel swimmers have begun their epic journeys towards France from Shakespeare Beach in Dover. Now for the first time since Boxing Day 2015, when a massive storm damaged the sea wall behind the beach and the railway above it, swimmers can return to the shingle shore and enjoy one of Dover’s hidden gems after a new footbridge restored access to the beach.

Work is set to resume at Glasgow Road, Carmuirs to replace the railway bridge over the A803 between Camelon and Bonnybridge.  The project, originally scheduled for autumn last year was postponed as the team could not get sufficient ‘access time’ to the railway line to complete the job

The final episode of a four-part documentary which has gone behind the scenes of the railway industry airs tonight on Channel 5 at 9pm.

Ben Cockburn, a construction manager for Network Rail, appears in a new documentary series which goes behind the scenes of the rail industry.