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Network Rail engineers have installed 2,300 sleepers along with ballast, the stones that form the track bed, ready for the start of the installation of track in the coming months.

Network Rail is advising passengers of platform alterations as engineering activity gets underway at Barnetby station.

The £68m modernisation of the Norwich Yarmouth Lowestoft railways took a major step forward last week (19 – 29 October) towards the switch-over from a Victorian era signalling system as the third phase of re-signalling works were completed following a nine-day suspension of rail services.

Today, Thursday 25 October, the first tram train in the UK entered service between Rotherham and Sheffield  thanks to a partnership between Network Rail, Stagecoach Supertram, South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive and the Department for Transport.

Network Rail is advising passengers to plan ahead and check before they travel as a huge £50million upgrade into the railway in East Yorkshire begins.

Network Rail has completed a vital upgrade to the signalling system in West Yorkshire as part of the Great North Rail Project.

Network Rail will today (Monday 22 October) begin a project to extend platforms three and four at Bradford Interchange railway station as part of the Great North Rail Project.

 A new development that will improve the look and feel of Leeds Railway Station has been announced by Network Rail and the East Coast Main Line Railway Board.