Permanent Way

Starting in December and continuing into next year, Network Rail will be carrying out vital track and embankment strengthening work on a section of the Ipswich-Lowestoft line. The work will boost reliability for passengers but means that bus replacement services...

The first drills have broken ground to launch the next phase of electrification along the Midland Main Line between London and Wigston, Leicestershire. As part of the Midland Main Line electrification, Network Rail will start to drive steel columns as...

Rail passengers are being advised of changes to journeys over nine days in October during major Trent Valley line upgrade work. Network Rail will replace 1000 metres of track in Nuneaton and install new signalling equipment in Stafford between Saturday...

A week of major engineering work will get underway on the Tunbridge Wells to Hastings line this October half term, to improve the reliability of the route.  This year’s work, from Saturday 22 – Sunday 30 October, follows a similar...

Lincoln’s latest cohort of students have been taught a lesson in rail safety, after worrying CCTV footage shows a man stumble across a level crossing. Captured at a level crossing in the heart of the city on Lincoln High Street,...

Rail services between King's Lynn, Cambridge and London King's Cross will return to their usual schedules from tomorrow, Wednesday 5 October, following completion of work to repair track defects caused by the recent heatwave. The prolonged spell of dry weather...

A special fleet of ‘leaf-busting’ trains have started blasting leaves off the line to help keep passengers and freight moving across the West Midlands and Chiltern main line this autumn. From this week until mid-December, five specialist trains will wash...

Passengers will be able to continue to move between Manchester and Huddersfield via diversionary routes, as two weekends of essential track work to transform train journeys through Stalybridge starts this September. As part of the multi-billion-pound Transpennine Route Upgrade, more than...

Network Rail is urgently pleading parents to hammer home the dangers of trespass and antisocial behaviour on the railway. It comes as new figures reveal that young people are involved in more than half of incidents at one Yorkshire station*. Shocking...

Over the August Bank Holiday, Network Rail delivered a package of improvements worth over £2.8m to bring better, more reliable journeys for passengers between Hitchin and London terminals.   Progress was made on the East Coast Digital Programme, with 56 new...