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Network Rail has announced that today, Monday 13 May, Aidan Hancock joined the company as group chief information officer (CIO).

• Hitachi Capital will manage Network Rail’s owned and leased road vehicle fleet
• Integrated ‘one-stop shop’ contract

Network Rail and the British Transport Police (BTP) have today launched a new partnership with the English Football League Trust (EFL Trust) and StreetGames to help tackle the increasing number of people risking their lives on the railway.

• Railway open for ‘business as usual’ over both May bank holiday weekends (4 – 6 and 25 – 27 May) as majority of the network is unaffected
• A 22,000 strong workforce will work around the clock over both May bank holiday weekends

• London Euston station and sections of the West Coast Main Line between London and Glasgow will be closed on 4-6 May

Network Rail has announced the award of six multi-million-pound framework contracts to deliver signalling and telecoms across the country, worth an estimated £750m for Control Period 6 (2019-2024).

• Railway open for ‘business as usual’ over both May bank holiday weekends (4 – 6 and 25 – 27 May) as majority of the network is unaffected
• London Euston station and sections of the West Coast Main Line between London and Glasgow will be closed on 4 – 6 May

• Railway open for ‘business as usual’ as majority of the network is unaffected by upgrade work with the quietest engineering programme for many years

It’s no joke – and certainly not an April Fool’s joke - as Network Rail today (1 April 2019)  made the last of the country’s biggest and busiest station toilets ‘free to pee’.