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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.

Passengers traveling from Norwich to London Liverpool Street will benefit from increased reliability and fewer delays, following the replacement of an old railway bridge, which carries the main line to London over Long John Hill in Norwich.

New pictures reveal how the main building at the new Cambridge North railway station is taking shape as work ramps up in the run-up to the station opening next year.

• Eight autumn weekends and the Christmas/New Year period affected
• Passengers will benefit from fewer delays
• Crossrail work to prepare for arrival of new trains from May 2017

One of Network Rail’s most experienced rail engineers gave children from Maple Grove primary school in Pitsea, Essex, an insight into 40 years in the railway industry yesterday (Thursday, 14 July).

Residents are invited to an event to discuss Network Rail’s proposals for the barrow crossing at Halesworth station.

Stop, look and listen, were the messages that Eliane Algaard, Network Rail’s director of route asset management for Anglia, gave to schoolchildren at an Upminster school at an assembly about railway safety.

Network Rail has issued an urgent safety warning after an adult and child ran in front of a train travelling at up to 80mph yesterday (Sunday, 3 July).