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• Network Rail and Southeastern launch landmark day for women in UK rail
• All female train crew and signallers team up in commuter first
• Network Rail to increase female workforce by 50% by 2024
• Southeastern reveals one in five staff are women following pledge to increase diversity
• Watch the film of the landmark event here https://youtu.be/H1RsBBT9bq8

For the next two weekends, 7 and 8 March and 14 and 15 March, buses will replace trains along the Greenwich line between Deptford/Blackheath and Plumstead stations, as Network Rail works to lay nearly a kilometre of new track, sleepers and ballast on the line.

• The line between Fareham and Eastleigh will close for improvement works between May 23 and 29
• Engineers will install almost a mile of new track between Fareham and Botley
• Passengers will benefit from a more reliable railway and better performing train journeys
• Bus replacement services and train service diversions will keep passengers moving

There is still time to have your say on Network Rail’s plans to connect Reigate to the Thameslink network.

Emergency night-time work is taking place to repair multiple landslips beside the railway between Coventry and Rugby.

To celebrate World Book Day today (5 March) Network Rail has teamed up with the world’s most famous blue engine and pre-schooler favourite, Thomas the Tank Engine™ and will be giving away special edition books in Smyths stores.

• Landslip close to Salisbury closed the line between Salisbury and Romsey on 18 February
• Interim fix devised by engineers will enable the line to be reopened by the end of March
• Longer-term solution to rebuild the embankment will be delivered once local flooding subsides and heavy machinery  can reach the area

Rail passengers and road users are being warned of disruption because of a fault with three automatic level crossings on the Marston Vale line in Bedfordshire.