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Network Rail has announced that Mark Carne, formerly executive vice president for the Middle East and North Africa for Royal Dutch Shell, is to be its next chief executive.

Network Rail today published its response to the Office of Rail Regulation’s draft determination for the period 2014 to 2019, CP5.

Network Rail refreshed the data available on its transparency portal today www.networkrail.co.uk/transparency

For the first time, all winners and commended entries from the Landscape Photographer of the Year Award’s special railway category will be displayed in a new exhibition at the National Railway Museum (NRM) in York, this November.

The world's most recognised railway bridge, the Forth Bridge, will become publicly accessible for the first time by 2015 under plans revealed by Network Rail today.

Punctuality on the railways reached 91.3% during Period 5, according to monthly performance data released today by Network Rail.

Network Rail and its partners have begun work to create a prototype battery-powered train, part of an industry study into the feasibility of using electric trains on parts of the network which have not been electrified.

Investment in a bigger, better rail network generated more than £3.2bn of work for businesses across Britain over the last year, according to new figures released today by Network Rail.