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Next month, between 23 and 31 August, passengers travelling from Gatwick Airport to London Bridge will need to find an alternative route to and from the capital as Network Rail’s plan to completely rebuild London Bridge station continues. For nine days, two of the three train operators who normally serve the station will be unable to call there.

Next month, between 23 and 31 August, passengers travelling from or through East Croydon to London Bridge will need to find an alternative route to and from the capital as Network Rail’s plan to completely rebuild London Bridge station continues. For nine days, two of the three train operators who normally serve the station will be unable to call there.

A team of young apprentices began work on the £6.5billion Thameslink project this week as part of the programme’s aim to develop the UK’s next generation of engineers.

Network Rail has completed a £5m project to extend platforms and improve Littlehaven station in Sussex.

More than £430m was invested in improving and expanding Britain’s rail network in East Anglia over the last 12 months, Network Rail revealed today in its full-year results for the 2013/14 financial year.

Almost £1.2bn was invested in the railway connecting Kent and Sussex with London last year, Network Rail revealed today in its full year results for the 2013/14 financial year.

Passengers on board the 10.20 Southern service to London Bridge station got a big surprise this morning as some unusual passengers tried a new route to work.

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.