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The removal of the mail conveyor at Bristol Temple Meads marks the start of work in the south west to electrify the Great Western Main Line

Kingsknowe level crossing misuse, Edinburgh - motorist smashes through barrier. The motorist was fined £300 and banned for six months. 

First trains on new line.

Tony Page, Reading Borough Council’s lead councillor for regeneration, planning and transport and Kevin Brown, Network Rail senior programme manager, at Cow Lane Bridge south in Reading, as finishing touches are put to the bridge and road before the opening on Monday 30th January.

Network Rail and The Office Group have come together to offer flexible working space at stations

Demolition specialists Coleman & Company, based in Great Barr, beat off competition from the UK, USA, Germany and Brazil to land the Contract of the Year award at the World Demolition Summit in Amsterdam. The prize was awarded for the work Coleman undertook in what will become the new station concourse at New Street station.

André Blackwood, 24 from Erdington who has recently been appointed as a trainee commissioning engineer for the redevelopment following a period of unemployment. (Aug 2011)

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