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From left to right: Dave Jones, designer Jacobs’ senior ecologist Clare Rice Network Rail construction manager Mrs Doreen Lawrence OBE Elwen Tasker, contractor Carillion’s environmental manager

picture shows key areas of work in the recovery of the railway following a spoil heap slip at Hatfield colliery in February 2013

Shallowford newt works, picture 3: The first great crested newt caught at Norton Bridge. Great crested newts are a protected species and can only be handled under licence.

Track and Train railway graduate Anna-Marie Stavrou. Track and Train is a paid work placement scheme

Train emerging from the northern portal of Shugborough Tunnel on the west coast main line near Stafford. (Photo courtesy of Ricky Forshaw)