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Network Rail has completed 23-days of intensive works in the Clacton-on-Sea area to replace the Victorian signalling system with a modern, computer-based system.

Brand new, easy-to-use cycle racks have been installed at Liverpool Street, increasing capacity for bikes at the station by 25%.

Network Rail is advising Greater Anglia passengers making essential weekend journeys between Ipswich and Peterborough via Ely to check before travelling as construction work for new Soham station progresses.

Emma Watson used to travel into London Liverpool Street Station every day, and now she works for Network Rail, as one of the country’s youngest station managers, managing the station. As she nears one year in the role, an unprecedented year at that, and to coincide with International Women’s Day, she shares her experience of being a female manager in a historically male-dominated rail industry.

Passengers travelling on the West Anglia Main Line between Liverpool Street, Stansted and Cambridge will benefit from more reliable journeys as work begins to replace worn track this weekend.

Network Rail’s public consultation on proposals to renew the railway’s signalling system and upgrade of seven level crossings across the Cambridge area opens today for six weeks.

Three level crossings in Woodbridge, Suffolk will be upgraded with new equipment that will make them safer starting this weekend (27 February). Access over the crossings will be maintained throughout the work.

Network Rail’s construction works at Romford station continue to move forward to deliver step free access, a new entrance and a fully refurbished and improved ticket office, ready for the opening of the Elizabeth line.