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New platforms, new lifts, new information systems, new signalling, new footbridges, new track; all have featured as record investment has been ploughed into Wales’ railways over the past six months.

Network Rail has notified the Department for Transport that it proposes to close the Folkestone Harbour branch line and Folkestone Harbour station.

Electric train services on the Chase Line moved a step closer today as local MPs and Councillors celebrated the start of work on the project at a ceremony in Bloxwich.

Passengers in Reading are set to benefit as six new retailers set-up shop on the station's new passenger bridge in April 2014.

Major improvements will be getting underway at Manchester Victoria this Christmas as Network Rail delivers the next stage of its plan to electrify the railway throughout Manchester and the North West.

This weekend, Gravesend station will get its first new footbridge since the 1800s.

Network Rail's chief information officer is so concerned about the rapid slide in the number of women entering the UK's IT sector, she has launched a new competition for girls where the company will pay for the winner's first year of university fees.

Network Rail's chief information officer is so concerned about the rapid slide in the number of women entering the UK's IT sector, she has launched a new competition for girls where the company will pay for the winner's first year of university fees.