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We’re thanking all our customers and passengers for their understanding and patience over the festive period while our engineers completed an extensive set of railway engineering work across the Anglia region to benefit passenger and freight services.

Station Road in Buckinghamshire has fully reopened to motorists after repairs to a railway bridge were completed by Network Rail.

Network Rail, Thameslink and Great Northern are reminding passengers to check their journey before travelling as further engineering work is carried out on two weekends in early January as part of the billion-pound East Coast Digital Programme.

Work is progressing well on the billion-pound East Coast Digital Programme with work being carried out further up the line between Peterborough and Grantham.

Network Rail enployee Zoe Sookun has been awarded the British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to the railway through her work in project managing the delivery of the Rail Aid for Ukraine project. 

Network Rail engineers have been working around-the-clock to re-open the railway in areas severely impacted by Storm Gerrit.

Couple Darren and Rachael get engaged on Santa's sleigh at Birmingham New Street station