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Network Rail has announced that the closure of Bromham Road will be in place until Summer 2020 to allow the final stage of work to upgrade the railway bridge to be completed.

Rob Turnbull, a Network Rail worker from Morpeth, will feature in an upcoming episode of the new BBC One documentary series Night Force, which showcases the people working overnight to keep Britain running.

Freight trains will move 34,000 tonnes of supermarket produce across the English-Scottish border this Easter weekend despite their usual rail route being shut for planned upgrades.

Network Rail and Great Northern are urging passengers to check before travelling over the Easter weekend as an essential project to create a more modern and reliable railway in Bowes Park takes place.

Over the Easter weekend, Network Rail will work to install a new underpass beneath the railway in Bessacarr in a £3.5million investment which will help to improve safety in the area.

Network Rail has thanked people who usually use King’s Cross railway station for following government guidance and only travelling when essential as new figures show that footfall at the station has decreased by 92%*.

Network Rail has thanked people who usually use Leeds railway station for following government guidance and only travelling when essential, as new figures show that footfall at the station has decreased by 94%*.

Every week, Network Rail’s key workers enable millions of tonnes of vital medical supplies, food, drinks and consumer goods to be transported around Great Britain during the Coronavirus crisis, including over 150,000 tonnes of freight which is moved by rail across Lincolnshire.