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Network Rail will be tweeting images and updates live from Reading station over Easter as the ‘orange army’ completes its biggest package of improvement work on the Western route to date.

Passengers planning to travel into London from Kent and the South East this Easter should check before they travel as Network Rail will be carrying out a major improvement programme in the area over all four days of the Bank Holiday.

Essential track and overhead line upgrades on the line between London Liverpool Street and Norwich have been carried out after eight weekends of work were completed.

A 17 year old girl from The Duston School, near Northampton, has scooped a runners’ up prize in a national competition run by Network Rail, which aims to raise awareness amongst young women of the exciting breadth of career options in technology and redress the male/female balance in the sector.

Network Rail has launched a consultation to give members of the public the opportunity to comment on plans to construct a second track between Ely and Soham.

A new footbridge has been opened over the railway near Balcombe in Sussex, marking a notable success for Network Rail's level crossing safety programme.

Passengers are being advised to plan their journeys and consider if they can travel either earlier or later from London Bridge station during tonight's rush hour after a wagon from an engineering train broke down outside the station.