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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).

Visitors to the Norfolk Show this week (Wednesday, 29 and Thursday, 30 June) took part in fun activities that showed them the dangers around the railway.

At the start of National Badger Week this week (25 June – 2 July), Network Rail has unveiled a new way of working on major upgrade projects to protect badgers living by the railway and keep the project on track.

Heavy rainfall across the Anglia region caused severe disruption to passengers travelling in from Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex into London this morning, as flooding at Manor Park, Seven Kings, Maryland and Ilford, between Colchester and Manningtree and between Shoeburyness and London Fenchurch Street meant it was unsafe to run trains through the affected areas.

On Women in Engineering Day, Eliane Algaard, director of route asset management for Anglia, explains why she chose a career in engineering.

Passengers travelling on the line connecting Norwich, Suffolk and Essex with London Liverpool Street will experience fewer heat related delays to train services in summer, following a major upgrade of the overhead lines which power the trains.

Residents in the Cheshunt area are being reminded the importance of obeying signals and signs at level crossings, following a spike in potentially dangerous incidents at level crossings in Trinity Lane, Waltham Cross and Wharf Road, Broxbourne.