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A competition which aims to dispel myths around jobs in IT and encourage girls to consider a career in the sector has landed Network Rail the IT Ambassador Award at the Real IT Awards, held by The Corporate IT Forum.

Rail passengers travelling on the busy Great Eastern Main Line can look forward to more reliable journeys as a major programme to renew ageing infrastructure starts this May.

Network Rail Consulting has appointed Andy Harrison as director of signalling and control systems.

Medieval floors, 16th century tobacco pipes and thousand-year-old timbers are just a few of the hundreds of artefacts that have been unearthed and preserved by Network Rail as the £6.5billion Thameslink Programme to transform travel to and through London continues with the rebuild of London’s oldest railway station, London Bridge.

Network Rail has today announced the preferred bidders for the delivery of its c.£800m conventional track renewals and enhancements programme for the 2014-19 funding period, as well as a change to the way the company’s growing ‘high output’ track programme will be delivered.

The line between Crewe and Chester will be closed next week to allow Network Rail to carry out essential drainage improvement work.

Network Rail will start work to rebuild a bridge in Walsall town centre later this year as part of plans to electrify 15 miles of railway in the West Midlands.

Work has started to extend platforms at five stations between London Marylebone and Birmingham Moor Street to provide the option for longer trains and extra seats on the Chiltern main line.