New overhead wire was installed at Brentwood this weekend, to improve reliability on the main line between Norwich and London as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan.

The railway between Rugeley Trent Valley and Walsall reopened on time today (29 August) after 16 days of work to upgrade the Chase line. 

Passengers are benefiting from a better, more reliable railway after a number of significant upgrades over the bank holiday weekend were successfully completed on time.

Network Rail has now fully reopened Waterloo station after completing one of the largest and most complex upgrades in the station’s history.

Rail passengers in Kent are asked to check before travelling on Tuesday 29 August as trains which had been diverted to run into Waterloo while major improvement work is carried out in and around London Bridge will run to and from London Blackfriars instead. The number of trains running will not be affected.

Network Rail will shortly begin a year-long £4m programme of work to replace and widen the bridge over the railway at Muirhead Road, Baillieston.

Bank Street in Alexandria will close for seven weeks from tonight (11.59pm Monday, August 28), while Network Rail engineers carry out work to repair and strengthen the railway bridge over the road.

Preparations for the exciting Virgin ‘Azuma’ trains move two steps closer to completion this month, as major railway upgrades are completed.