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• Line on target to reopen on Saturday 28 March supporting key workers needing to travel and freight deliveries
• Repair involves building an access road through a flooded field and the installation of 250 metres of 13 metre deep steel sheets to secure the embankment

Network Rail Southern Region operations teams are working hard to keep signalboxes and control centres open 24/7, despite losing staff to self-isolation and sickness during the coronavirus crisis.

Network Rail Southern Region was successful at the 22nd Rail Business Awards, winning two awards and also receiving a highly-commended title.

For the next two weekends, 7 and 8 March and 14 and 15 March, buses will replace trains along the Greenwich line between Deptford/Blackheath and Plumstead stations, as Network Rail works to lay nearly a kilometre of new track, sleepers and ballast on the line.

• The line between Fareham and Eastleigh will close for improvement works between May 23 and 29
• Engineers will install almost a mile of new track between Fareham and Botley
• Passengers will benefit from a more reliable railway and better performing train journeys
• Bus replacement services and train service diversions will keep passengers moving

There is still time to have your say on Network Rail’s plans to connect Reigate to the Thameslink network.

Sunflower-branded lanyards are now available to passengers with hidden disabilities to discreetly show they might need extra help while travelling.

Network Rail engineers are taking emergency action to shore up a damaged section of railway this weekend on the Uckfield line.