Network Rail has announced the appointment of two vastly experienced non-executive directors to its new Property Board as the company continues to ramp up its property activities.

Improvements to the railway station buildings at Knaresborough will get under way in the coming weeks. 

The planned closure of the barrow crossing at Halesworth station in Suffolk has been postponed by Network Rail, hoping that an interim solution will change unsafe behaviour at the crossing.

Rail passengers in Nottinghamshire are being urged to check before they travel this coming bank holiday weekend with engineering work set to take place on the network.

Members of the public are being invited to attend a drop-in-event to find out more about Network Rail’s work to replace Haslucks Green Road bridge in Shirley.

Network Rail is working with ecologists to carry out an extensive study into what impact the new railway upgrade between Oxford and Bedford will have on the local environment, paying particular attention to a rare species of bat known to roost in the local area.

Passengers travelling from Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex to London Liverpool Street will benefit from fewer delays and more reliable journeys from September, following installation of a new railway bridge in Norwich and new track at Mile End during the August bank holiday weekend. Crossrail construction work will also continue along the route between Shenfield and London Liverpool Street.

The railway line between Banbury, Bicester and Leamington Spa reopened today after Network Rail completed a £76m upgrade to track and signalling on the Chiltern main line.