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Network Rail, the owner and operator of the national rail network, has today launched an industry consultation aimed at reforming the management and ownership of rail freight property. The consultation outlines the proposed transfer of the majority of DB Schenker Rail UK's 250 property interests across the rail network to Network Rail.

An image of the 08:30 rail service from Hamworthy speeding through the beautiful Holes Bay at Poole in Dorset, as a small, wrecked rowing boat rests in the foreground, has won the Network Rail Lines in the Landscape award as part of the Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year competition.

Phase two of the government-funded Thameslink programme has been launched at London Bridge station, which will be completely rebuilt in what has been described as the most ambitious redevelopment of any London station in a generation.

Tonnes of copper saved through new approach to signalling power