Media centre

Network Rail will hold information events in Crossgates, Garforth and Selby next week to inform people living near the railway of vegetation removal work.

Passengers travelling on the railway between Norwich and London and across to Cambridge are being asked to check before they travel, particularly at weekends as complex improvement works continue over Christmas and into 2017. This work will deliver vital railway upgrades for the Crossrail programme and remove long-standing heat related speed restrictions.

Network Rail will hold two information events in Dringhouses and Copmanthorpe next week to inform people living near the railway of vegetation removal work.

Residents in Needham Market are invited to an event to find out more about Network Rail’s plans to close Gipsy Lane level crossing and replace it with a new walking route.

Christmas should be a time of year when everyone can enjoy themselves and have fun. But for some festive revellers it can spell danger, as new figures from Network Rail show that alcohol related incidents during the festive period across the Anglia rail network nearly doubled last year.

Network Rail has completed a project to install new pumps at Goole subway to minimise the risk of flooding during periods of heavy rain.

Plans for a phased programme of benefits to be delivered to customers as part of Northern Programmes - the largest railway upgrade in the north of England since Victorian times, were unveiled today (Thursday 10 November 2016).

Train services are returning to normal for Thameslink passengers and a full service is in operation on East Midlands Trains this morning (Friday 11 November).  Engineers successfully tested and brought into service a new signalling control system after the old one was damaged beyond repair by a power surge.