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A multi-million-pound railway bridge replacement in Workington will soon benefit passengers and the local economy in Cumbria.

Network Rail is starting work this month on a £3.7million project to upgrade the railway bridge at Doncaster Road in Crofton.

In the early hours of the morning, a stretch of signalling, miles long, lost power between Milton Keynes and Watford junction.

Passengers are being urged to check before they travel after heavy rain flooded the railway between Wigan and Southport.

Network Rail is advising drivers, cyclists and pedestrians in Cuffley that closures will be in place on Station Road over the next few months, as major work takes place on a £3.2million project to upgrade the railway bridge. 

Network Rail has completed an innovative 12 month programme of electrical works, infrastructure upgrades and operational changes to boost reliability on a critical section of track between Liverpool Street station and Bethnal Green.

Network Rail is working with technology startup nPlan to use Machine Learning technology across its portfolio of projects, potentially transforming the way major rail projects are delivered across Britain. Through using data from past projects to produce accurate cost and time forecasts, the partnership will deliver efficiencies in the way projects are planned and carried out, and improve service reliability for passengers by reducing the risk of overruns.

Works to replace a bridge at Eccles Heath, which was damaged in a road traffic incident in 2017, are set to start at the end of this month.