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The Bedford – Sandy – Cambridge corridor is today announced as the preferred option for the Central Section of East West Rail.

After a long weekend of heavy engineering work and stormy weather across Kent and London, the railway network is up and running again.

After a long weekend of heavy engineering work – and some dreadful weather - across Sussex and London, the railway network is up and running again.

Despite Storm Katie doing her best to disrupt the long weekend, Network Rail's orange army completed a record-breaking 450 engineering projects planned for the Easter bank holiday on time.

Passengers are today (29 March) benefiting from a better railway through the Stafford area and can look forward to improved services in future after a new section of track and a key flyover opened to trains at Norton Bridge.

Enabling faster and more frequent services on the main lines between London Liverpool Street to Cambridge and Norwich will be a priority for Network Rail in the next decade, according to an updated study which looks at long-term plans for the railway in the east of England.

The railway in the East Midlands is undergoing a transformation.  Network Rail’s current upgrade programme is re-energising one of Britain’s oldest railways by delivering an electrified railway which can carry more and longer trains, more quickly.

Network Rail has unveiled proposals to meet future growth in passenger and freight journeys in Wales and the borders.