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Rail chiefs today said a big thank you to passengers from London, Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, who have had to take weekend travel alternatives into London Liverpool Street since early February, after Network Rail completed a 10-weekend package of works as part of its Railway Upgrade Plan to provide a bigger, better, more reliable railway for passengers. 

• Network Rail and Transport for London will be holding drop-in sessions at stations to answer questions
• Work to install new infrastructure will require a phased programme of closures from June this year

• Journeys on the route to be improved and capacity doubled with new four-carriage electric trains from early 2018

Daniel Zeichner MP for Cambridge visited the site of a new £50m station north of Cambridge today (1 April 2016), which is anticipated to handle 3,000 passenger journeys a day once opened.

A Network Rail community relations executive has helped to inspire young people from across Essex with hearing loss, when he gave a presentation to children at St Clere’s school in Stanford-Le-Hope this week.

In spite of the arrival of Storm Katie this weekend, work to upgrade the railway in Essex this Easter was completed, meaning that passengers’ journeys on the line from Norwich to London will be more reliable.

Enabling faster and more frequent services on the main lines between London Liverpool Street to Cambridge and Norwich will be a priority for Network Rail in the next decade, according to an updated study which looks at long-term plans for the railway in the east of England.

Work to replace a level crossing in Downham Market, Norfolk, completed this week as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan.

Passengers are being reminded to check before they travel this Easter as Network Rail’s orange army get set to carry out work on one of the biggest investment programmes ever carried out on Britain’s rail network at Easter.