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Network Rail, British Transport Police (BTP), Leeds United Foundation and Virgin Trains East Coast  launched Leeds Station Safety Week 2018 yesterday (Monday, 21 May) to teach children how to stay safe on the railway.

As part of the Midland Main Line Upgrade, Network Rail is proposing to reconstruct Bromham Road Bridge to allow all the railway lines through Bedford to be electrified.  

Shocking footage from Network Rail shows the scale misuse at Grays station level crossing on station approach, as two people are fined for trespassing.

Network Rail has today announced that Andrew Haines OBE has been appointed as its new chief executive. Andrew, who has had a wide ranging career in the rail industry and transport sector, joins following completion of his current role as chief executive of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). 

Residents in Middleton, Greater Manchester, are invited to a public event to hear about improvement work to provide an obstacle free and accessible route to platforms at Mills Hill station.

Network Rail engineers have completed the first phase in the project to electrify the railway lines linking Stirling, Dunblane and Alloa to the main Glasgow-Edinburgh route.

More than 45,000 journeys were safely made between London Waterloo and Windsor & Eton Riverside on Saturday as the nation celebrated the wedding of Their Royal Highnesses, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. 

The first ever electric train has travelled between Birmingham and Bromsgrove.