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• New permanent bridge over Great Western Main Line in Iver replaces the temporary bridge that has been in place since 2014
• New bridge accommodates overhead cables needed  to introduce greener, quieter, more reliable electric trains
• Click here to download a selection of images of the new bridge

A severely damaged stretch of railway near Dover will need to be completely replaced with a new viaduct before trains can run again.

Daniel Zeichner MP for Cambridge visited the site of a new £50m station north of Cambridge today (1 April 2016), which is anticipated to handle 3,000 passenger journeys a day once opened.

Over all four days of the Easter weekend, the East Kent re-signalling team took over the railway between Longfield, Sittingbourne, and the Isle of Sheppey, to commission a brand-new system to control trains.

A Network Rail community relations executive has helped to inspire young people from across Essex with hearing loss, when he gave a presentation to children at St Clere’s school in Stanford-Le-Hope this week.

• £30m of work completed as part of preparing the existing railway for the Crossrail programme in outer London, Berkshire and Essex
• Half of Network Rail’s £60m national Easter upgrades invested in delivering improvements for the Crossrail programme
• Click here to download a selection of images of the Easter work

Network Rail is urging residents and businesses to provide their views on plans for a new link connecting the rail network from the west to London Heathrow, ahead of the latest deadline for feedback of Monday 4 April.

Passengers travelling into London Waterloo will benefit from more reliable journeys as a result of Network Rail’s Easter investment, part of Network Rail’s £40billion Railway Upgrade Plan.