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Network Rail today released station retail sales results showing a 6.4% growth in like-for-like sales from April to June 2013. In the same period high street sales, reported by the British Retail Consortium, increased by 0.4%, meaning retail sales in stations continue to outperform the high street.

Network Rail has today launched the search for around 100 graduates to join its 2014 graduate scheme and become future leaders of Britain’s rail industry. The company has also has expanded its one-year work placement programme for undergraduates to find and secure the best and brightest before they leave university.

Network Rail’s testing programme for cab signalling has enjoyed a successful start and has entered its second phase at the test centre in Hitchin.

Punctuality on the railways reached 92.3% during Period 6, according to monthly performance data released today by Network Rail. The data for Britain's train services covers the period from 18 August-14 September 2013. This compares to 94.0% for the same period last year. The moving annual average is now at 90.7%

UK rapper Wretch 32 and spoken word performer George the Poet have put their hearing to the test in a unique experiment as part of a new Network Rail safety campaign aimed at young men called Track Tests.

Network Rail’s freight team are celebrating after the company won three awards – including the prestigious Business of the Year award - from the Rail Freight Group (RFG).

Network Rail’s electrical control systems are to be overhauled and brought together under a new contract, changing the way the railway manages its power.

The first stage of work to connect two rail tunnels to the national network will take place this weekend in a development which will transform the shape of rail services in the south of England.