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Network Rail and Govia Thameslink Railway (GTR) are pleased to announce that Bedford station car park has fully reopened today (Friday, 6 December), over two weeks earlier than planned.

Over 40 people from the rail industry have joined a Network Rail signaller to sleep out at Blackpool North station to raise money for a homeless charity.

Network Rail has been awarded a National Railway Heritage award for its work on the refurbishment of the South Esk viaduct at Montrose.

Eastern Region, Anglia Route:

The vast majority of our rail network in Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and East London will be open as usual for passengers to travel over the Christmas and New Year holidays.  

Four of the country’s biggest railway stations will now offer passengers with hidden disabilities a discreet way to ask for extra help while making their journeys.

Network Rail and Northern have today announced the final plans for rail services on 27, 28 and 29 December to allow major improvement work at Leeds station.

Sussex passengers are seeing the benefits of a major upgrade programme this week as Network Rail finished replacing the signalling system on the route from Lewes to Seaford, via Newhaven, replacing a system controlled from three signal boxes dating back to 1879.

Network Rail engineers will be working around-the-clock this Christmas to renew a key junction near Edinburgh Haymarket station.