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Transport Minister Keith Brown was joined by some of Riverside’s oldest and youngest residents today (Monday, April 7) to officially open the new Shore Road bridge.

The Station Office Network, the joint venture between Network Rail and The Office Group, has announced that it will open a further three drop-in work spaces in 2014 following the successful launch of its flexible office product at Paddington station in mid-2012.

Plans for a new railway flyover which will help provide increased capacity and improved reliability on the Stafford to Crewe section of the busy West Coast main line have been given the go-ahead.

Network Rail has announced that Dr Francis Paonessa will join the company as managing director, infrastructure projects this summer. Dr Paonessa is currently managing director UK, Bombardier Transportation. He will replace Simon Kirby, who leaves Network Rail in June to take up the role of chief executive at HS2 Ltd.

Passengers can expect faster journeys between Crewe and Stafford with the completion of line speed improvements on one of Europe’s busiest rail routes.

With one month to go ahead of the first of a series of closures of the railway at Watford, passengers are being reminded to check for changes to their journey before travelling between 3-5 May 2014.

A bridge in the centre of Kendal which has been refurbished and repainted by Network Rail has reopened a week early.

The communities and businesses of south and west Devon and Cornwall were celebrating today as their rail link with the rest of the country was restored in time for the Easter holidays, following eight weeks of painstaking repairs to the storm-ravaged railway at Dawlish.