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For several weeks this winter, railway neighbours at Bobbing, near Sittingbourne, Kent, were living near a major construction project as Network Rail and suppliers Balfour Beatty, Seva and others got to grips with a landslip on the line to London.

A once in a generation investment is being made to improve railway signalling on a key section of the West Coast main line in the North West.

Passengers travelling on the south London lines into London Victoria can look forward to more reliable journeys after Network Rail delivered a bumper programme of upgrades over May and June. 

One of Network Rail’s senior engineers, who is leading on making the railway better for the Anglia region, wants to encourage other women to consider jobs in the rail industry, as part of International Women in Engineering Day (Wednesday 23 June).

A Network Rail engineer who upgraded the signalling at London King’s Cross station as part of the £1.2billion East Coast Upgrade is using this year’s International Women in Engineering Day (Wednesday, 23 June) to encourage more women to consider a railway career.

Sellafield signal box on the Cumbrian Coast line has become the first to be entirely staffed by women since the Second World War.

Network Rail has completed a £2.2million platform upgrade at Garrowhill station in Glasgow’s East End.

Rail passengers using the Abbey Line between Watford Junction and St Albans are being advised of changes to timetables from next Monday (28 June) because of safety speed restrictions.