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A new dedicated rail safety education facility is opened by Network Rail and Southeastern in Margate railway station, featuring a full-scale railway platform, life-size train front, model railway and interactive games.

It has taken a while, but the sun has finally arrived, and Network Rail Southern region is celebrating the start of the summer holidays with free ice cream and a selfie competition at its amazing London stations.

Preparatory works for cutting reinforcement project continued this Saturday (24 July). Buses will replace trains between Maidstone East and Ashford International.

• Purse / wallet (28%), keys (26%) and mobile phone (25%) were among the personal items adults would retrieve from the track
• Yet 100% of adults understand that stepping onto the tracks carries risk of serious injury or death
• Seven-time Paralympian Simon Munn, MBE, joins Network Rail and British Transport Police to launch new safety film – Shattered Lives – highlighting the devastating consequences of adult trespass

A new station building that is part of the Kidbrooke Village development has been officially opened today by Network Rail’s chairman, Sir Peter Hendy, CBE, alongside guests from Berkeley Homes, Southeastern and the local community.

Preparatory works for cutting reinforcement project start on Saturday. Buses will replace trains between Maidstone East and Ashford International.

For several weeks this winter, railway neighbours at Bobbing, near Sittingbourne, Kent, were living near a major construction project as Network Rail and suppliers Balfour Beatty, Seva and others got to grips with a landslip on the line to London.

Passengers who travel between Orpington and Lewisham are being asked to plan ahead as essential improvement work is carried out in the Grove Park area over five weekends in late June and through July.  There will also be replacement buses between Grove Park and Bromley North over the same weekends