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People and businesses across the Greater Lincolnshire area will benefit from almost £100m of investment in the region’s railway this Christmas as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan.

Network Rail’s new route managing director for the London North Eastern and East Midlands route says he is excited about the future ahead of work to electrify and upgrade two major rail lines that will improve journey times for millions of passengers.

People and businesses in the East Midlands are set to benefit from Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan as the next phase of a £35m resignalling programme gets under way later this month.

A railway bridge which carries the East Coast Main Line through Huntingdon is set to be improved as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan.

A bridge in Leeds will be replaced as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan to improve the reliability of the network in West Yorkshire.

A stark warning has been issued after CCTV captured eight incidents of dangerous behaviour in a single day on a rural railway crossing in Derbyshire.

A Gateshead road bridge will be replaced as part of Network Rail’s plans to upgrade the railway in the North East.

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.