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The railway’s first contactless donation points at London Bridge and Charing Cross station have raised nearly £5,000 to help tackle the rise of homelessness in London. Network Rail and TAP London installed the donation points last year which has seen around 1,500 people donate.

Track replacement on the East Suffolk Line was completed this weekend to deliver punctuality improvements for passengers, following a nine-day closure of the line.

Network Rail teams in the North East have volunteered their skills to help a primary school in County Durham acquire two disused railway carriages and convert them into a school library.

Network Rail has slammed the dangerous and reckless behaviour of some level crossing users in Scarborough following a near miss and two shocking deliberate misuse incidents in the last six months.

Building work started on Gatwick Airport’s huge new railway station concourse yesterday (Sunday), as the first train arrived at one of the platforms that has been rebuilt.

Passengers are being thanked after a nine-day railway closure for the restoration of a historic railway viaduct in Calderdale designed by railway pioneer George Stephenson.

To improve rail journeys for passengers, Network Rail has replaced track, sleepers and ballast on the branch line between Alresford and Great Bentley, and installed overhead line structures and foundations as part of major upgrade works to the signalling system in the Clacton-on-Sea area.

The central section of the Heart of Wales line has today (2 November) been handed back for services to return running on Tuesday 3 November after Network Rail completed a huge recovery effort of the line after extensive storm damage at Llandrindod Wells in August