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Network Rail gears up for Autumn as ‘Ctrl Alt Deleaf’ takes to the tracks
Leaves are browning, autumn is around the corner and Network Rail is gearing up for its annual multi-million-pound battle against Mother Nature and ‘leaves on the line’, aiming to keep millions of passengers and trains safe and moving over the next three months.
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Night-time landslip repairs keeping Birmingham to London passengers moving
Emergency night-time work is taking place to repair multiple landslips beside the railway between Coventry and Rugby.
Vital renovation works for Forth Bridge approaches
Network Rail will soon begin work on a £7.5m project to refurbish and repaint the North Queensferry approach span to the world famous Forth Bridge.
Multi-billion-pound signalling contracts awarded to help deliver a more reliable railway for passengers
Billions of pounds will be invested in railway signalling over the next five years to improve the reliability of systems on Britain’s railways, potentially enabling more trains to run.
Network Rail announces £640m contract awards to deliver design services
Network Rail has announced the award of 82 framework contracts to deliver design services across the country, worth an estimated £400m for Control Period 6 (2019-2024) and up to £640m including the options to extend the framework into Control Period 7 (2024-2029).
New Route Director Joins Network Rail Anglia
Ellie Burrows has joined Network Rail this week as route director for Anglia. The Anglia route is one of four new routes that make up Network Rail’s Eastern region and covers Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and parts of Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Greater London. The move to routes and regions is part of Network Rail’s nationwide programme “Putting Passengers First” launched in June 2019.
Vale of Glamorgan AM visits Cadoxton station during major upgrade
Vale of Glamorgan AM, Jane Hutt, met the Network Rail team upgrading Cadoxton station today, to see first-hand the work being delivered to make the station accessible for all passengers.
Bridging the visualisation gap – using augmented reality to show the next generation of railway footbridges
Use of AR – a first for Network Rail – puts architects’ designs into passengers’ smartphones.
Network Rail and Hack Partners launch post-hackathon acceleration fund
Network Rail and Hack Partners, the company behind the HackTrain initiative, have launched a new post-hackathon fund designed to accelerate the development of innovative ideas to improve rail services for passengers.
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