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It's time for Liverpool Street Station: ACME-Liverpool Street Station upper concourse experience

It's time for Liverpool Street Station

Monday 4 Nov 2024

Network Rail Property launches consultation on new plans to transform Britain’s busiest station.

Green light for 30 acre industrial-led logistics campus at Bow Goods Yard: BGY Aerial Multi-storey

Green light for 30 acre industrial-led logistics campus at Bow Goods Yard

Thursday 24 Oct 2024

An outline masterplan to regenerate over 30 acres of brownfield land at Bow Goods Yard, East London, into a rail freight campus and last mile logistics hub has been unanimously approved by the London Legacy Development Corporation.

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Train doors to close 40 seconds before departure for all Birmingham New Street services: Passengers boarding train at Birmingham New Street station

Train doors to close 40 seconds before departure for all Birmingham New Street services

Friday 8 Nov 2024

Train doors at Birmingham New Street are to close up to 40 seconds before departure to help services leave the station on time.

£4.6m accessibility improvements unveiled at Plumstead station: Plumstead Access for All scheme officially opened

£4.6m accessibility improvements unveiled at Plumstead station

Friday 8 Nov 2024

Representatives from Network Rail and Southeastern were joined by Abena Oppong-Asare MP and invited guests to officially mark the opening of two new lifts at Plumstead station today (Friday 8 November) following £4.6million accessibility upgrades

Engineering work to affect train journeys on Heart of Wales Line for 11 days from late November: Brand new timbers being put in place

Engineering work to affect train journeys on Heart of Wales Line for 11 days from late November

Friday 8 Nov 2024

Passengers are urged to check before they travel between Swansea and Llandrindod later this month, when Network Rail will be carrying out essential engineering work at a viaduct on the Heart of Wales Line.

Progress continues as TRU deliver upgrades across West Yorkshire: BTWTS 02-06-012

Progress continues as TRU deliver upgrades across West Yorkshire

Friday 8 Nov 2024

Customers are being reminded to check before they travel as the TRU team reach the halfway mark in their delivery of rail upgrades between Dewsbury and Leeds.

Network Rail and Southeastern alliance joins forces to get trains on the move quicker along the Hastings line: Robertsbridge MOM depot 14

Network Rail and Southeastern alliance joins forces to get trains on the move quicker along the Hastings line

Friday 8 Nov 2024
  • Response times for Network Rail first responders on the Hastings line to be slashed by up to an hour during disruption
  • George Graham House, at Robertsbridge station, will act as a new base for operations managers so that incidents can be responded to more quickly.
STARTING TOMORROW: West of England line between Axminster and Exeter to close for two weeks for important upgrade work: Honiton tunnel-10

STARTING TOMORROW: West of England line between Axminster and Exeter to close for two weeks for important upgrade work

Friday 8 Nov 2024

Buses will replace trains between Axminster and Exeter St Davids from Saturday 9 November to Friday 22 November whilst we make track upgrades in the Honiton area.

Not quite the end of the line for old railway assets: Diagram from North Seaton signal box donated to WNGR, Network Rail

Not quite the end of the line for old railway assets

Friday 8 Nov 2024

Historic railway equipment destined for the scrap yard has been saved by three groups of enthusiasts in Northumberland.

Crucial four-day engineering programme for West Highland Line: ScotRail train on the West Highland Line

Crucial four-day engineering programme for West Highland Line

Thursday 7 Nov 2024

Engineers will be working around-the-clock for four days from this Saturday at locations between Craigendoran and Crianlarich to renew track, refurbish structures and improve drainage on the railway.