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Network Rail has identified the preferred location of the proposed new railway station for Cambridge South. The chosen location corresponds with Option 1 presented to the public earlier this year and follows a review of engineering and design information together with the results of public consultation.

Passengers in Sussex will feel the benefits of a major renewal and refurbishment to Oxted Viaduct and a footbridge replacement in Eridge, a village on the Uckfield branch of the Oxted line.

An overhaul of the overhead power lines outside Euston station which will mean more reliable journeys for passengers was completed by Network Rail today (19 June).

A helicopter has been used to repair a historic Victorian railway tunnel that takes passenger trains between Clitheroe and Manchester through a hillside in Darwen, Lancashire.

Engineers are continuing to strengthen a railway slope close to St Catherine’s tunnel in Guildford following a landslip last December, with work expected to last until November 2020.

Network Rail will shortly begin a programme of work at Milngavie station to extend the platforms in an investment that will deliver greater operational flexibility on the line.

Last night (16 June) 180 tonnes of earth slipped onto the railway after persistent heavy rainfall near Whitmore, Staffordshire.

The work to deliver vital improvements for passengers across Somerset and Dorset has successfully passed the half-way point as Network Rail engineers continue to work around the clock to repair and upgrade the railway following last year’s landslip.