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Phil Hufton, managing director of network operations at Network Rail, said: “At the start of this year we had a number of problems that caused passengers disruption and frustration and we apologise for this.  Since then we have proactively invested over £11m to improve performance for Southern and Thameslink passengers.

The UK is now home to the first, brand-new Siemens-built Class 700 Desiro City train, which is set to transform passenger experience on the Thameslink rail routes when it rolls into action next year.

On the evening of Sunday 26 July we received a report that the first carriage of the 2010 Charing Cross to Ramsgate train had become derailed after hitting cattle in the Godmersham area, between Wye and Chilham.

Passengers on some of the busiest commuter lines in the country can look forward to more frequent and more reliable trains following a deal to provide new traffic management technology on the Thameslink route through central London.

The multi-million pound improvement and expansion of London Waterloo has moved an important step closer this week as a planning application for works to enable more trains to run in and out of the station has been submitted.

The important role played by women and the railway during World War I is told in an exhibition which can be seen by visitors to London this summer.

People in Kent and East Sussex can find out more about a project to boost rail capacity and reduce crowding on the Uckfield line at a series of drop-in sessions organised by Network Rail.

These beautiful pictures show the huge scale of Network Rail's redevelopment at London Bridge station, with a construction site as long as the Shard is tall.