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• New longer structure being installed to allow dualling of road below

• Service alterations in place, with buses replacing trains on some routes

Millions of passengers are set to benefit from the opening of the biggest railway control centre in the country as Hugh Bayley MP and Phil Verster, Network Rail route managing director, today marked the building’s completion.

Minister of State for Transport, Baroness Kramer, visited Lincolnshire on Thursday 11 September to view progress on the £280m project to upgrade and modernise a key rail artery that will enable more and better services to run.

First Capital Connect, Network Rail and Hertfordshire County Council welcomed the Minister of State for Transport Baroness Kramer to Hatfield station on Thursday September 11 for a tour of the improvement work.

Narborough Road bridge is getting a facelift. Network Rail engineers are cleaning and painting the bridge, which crosses the A5460 Narborough Road in Leicester between its junctions with Ivy Road and Winchester Avenue.

Members of the public are invited to attend a drop-in event to find out more about the reconstruction of Stratton Green bridge in Swindon.

• Work to reconstruct three bridges in Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire is essential to prepare the line for faster, quieter, greener electric trains
• Passengers are reminded to plan ahead and check before they travel on Sunday September 14 and Sunday September 21

Network Rail’s ‘orange army’ has reached an important milestone at Dawlish by starting improvement work on the final section of walkway between Rockstone and Coast Guard footbridges.