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The wettest winter for almost 250 years with the network experiencing severe flooding, landslips and line closures, tested the rail industry’s resilience during a difficult period 12.

Network Rail’s chief executive has today issued a full and unreserved apology on behalf of the company for past failings in managing public safety at level crossings and for its past behaviour towards bereaved families.

An £87m contract to deliver the design and construction of the new Chiltern Railways route between London Marylebone and Oxford and the western section of the East West Rail scheme to Bedford and Milton Keynes has been awarded by Network Rail.

School leavers across Britain are being offered the chance to join a trainee engineering design scheme, where they will earn as they learn and gain a foundation degree.

32 Leeds based primary school kids to ‘Tackle Track Safety’ with Network Rail as part of Leeds United Foundation programme

The team redeveloping Birmingham New Street station is celebrating the appointment of the 100^th apprentice to the project.

Passengers travelling to and through Southampton are reminded to check before they travel at weekends between now and May as Network Rail will be carrying out extensive planned improvement work to increase the reliability of the railway in the Southampton area.

Network Rail is mobilising its engineers to assess damage to the railway, whilst exploring a temporary solution to enable some services to run, as flood water starts to recede at Bridgwater.