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With a week to go until Christmas, Network Rail’s orange army are preparing for one of their busiest festive periods so far.

Motorists will have less time to wait at Oulton Broad North level crossing near Lowestoft after changes made by Network Rail.

It is ten years since the tragic deaths of Olivia Bazlinton, 14, and Charlotte Thompson, 13, at Elsenham level crossing in Essex – an event which led to a sea-change in Network Rail’s approach to level crossing safety and today Britain has the best level crossings safest record of any major railway in Europe. 

Passengers travelling on the line between Norwich and London over the Christmas and New Year period should check before they travel as Network Rail will be carrying out vital improvements to deliver a better, more reliable railway.

Residents from Needham Market in Suffolk are invited to attend two drop-in sessions next week to find out more about Network Rail’s plans to improve safety at Gipsy Lane level crossing.

A new campaign has been launched encouraging students in the east of England to take care at level crossings as it is revealed that 430 young people in the region were involved in a near miss with a train at a level crossing in the past five years.

Network Rail staff at London Liverpool Street station have been celebrating their success after winning the “Major Station of the Year” award at the prestigious National Rail Awards.

Network Rail is inviting people to have their say on proposals to upgrade the railway between Bicester and Bedford and Milton Keynes and Princes Risborough.