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Work to transform the second of three platforms at Moorfields station in Liverpool is set to complete tomorrow (Saturday 2 April 2016) in time for the Grand National meeting at Aintree the following weekend.

Network Rail and VisitScotland have today launched a global hunt to uncover the origins of mysterious, 71-year-old plans to reconstruct the iconic Forth Bridge.

Network Rail is reminding passengers that the Hope Valley Line running between Sheffield and Manchester will be closed from Ashburys to Romiley and Marple Wharf Junction to New Mills Central between 2 and 10 April 2016.

Editor's note: Don’t worry, catapostrophe averted. It was an April fool. A spokesperson for Network Rail said: “Long live the… apostrophe!”.

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.

Passengers will benefit from a more reliable train service between Birmingham and Wolverhampton thanks to a £5m investment over the Easter weekend.

Network Rail today announced that David Waboso, capital programmes director at London Underground, will join the company as managing director, Digital Railway.

Network Rail has formed an official construction partnership to build the new Ordsall Chord in Manchester, which will help improve rail travel for commuters across the north of England.