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After more than a month’s work by Network Rail engineers and contractor BAM Nuttall, the landslip at Ockley has been repaired five days ahead of schedule.

Network Rail has laid out its proposals, as tasked by the Government in summer 2012, for a new rail link from the Great Western main line to London Heathrow airport.

The railway between Exeter and Penzance is currently shut after damage at several locations caused by storm force winds, heavy seas and flooding.

Four suppliers have been appointed by Network Rail to deliver a £2bn programme to electrify more than two thousand miles of Britain’s railway over the next seven years, providing faster, quieter, greener and more reliable journeys for passengers and freight users and cutting the cost of the railway.

A further landslip on the railway between Battle and Robertsbridge means the railway will be closing for urgent repair work – starting after tomorrow morning’s rush-hour.

Network Rail is looking for apprentices to join the company and help deliver a multi-billion pound programme of work to renew and maintain one of the most intensely used networks in the world.

Today (Monday 3 February) Secretary of State for Transport, Rt. Hon. Patrick McLoughlin MP visited Leeds to mark the start of work on Metro and Network Rail's £17.3m project to create a new entrance to the south of Leeds Station.

Places are now available for young people across Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire for Network Rail’s successful three-year apprenticeship scheme. The company is seeking 15 new recruits at its maintenance depots in Norwich, Ipswich, Romford, Ely and Wanstead to help deliver the billions of pounds being invested in the coming years to provide a bigger, better, more efficient and more reliable railway.