Network Rail

👷‍♀️ We’re investing £7.5m to renew one of Chapel Milton’s twin viaducts and secure its future as a freight powerhouse. About 25,000 tonnes of stone, cement and limestone travel across the 230-metre-long Victorian structure every day: 👉 networkrail.co.uk/stories/keepin… #FreightFriday

We’ve launched a new project to help us find new ways to tackle #landslips in Sussex. 💪 Find out how it’s already helping us give you safer, more reliable journeys: ➡️ networkrail.co.uk/stories/projec… Plus, we're working with @bluebellrailway to test new tech. 🚂 #Resilience

🛤️👷 Britain’s railway will be open for business over the August bank holiday but please make sure you check your train journey before travelling: 👉 networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/britains-… #AugustRailWorks @nationalrailenq

🌉 This time last year we finished upgrading High Level Bridge in Newcastle. Did you know the High Level Bridge was the world’s first bridge to carry the railway and road❓ Find out more about it in numbers: 👉 networkrail.co.uk/stories/high-l… #Railway200

👀 Discover the past, present and future of our railway on the Inspiration train touring Britain until next summer. 📹 It tells the railway’s 200-year story of innovation, brought to life by interactive exhibitions: 👉 railway200.co.uk/inspiration/ #Railway200 @railway200

🏗️ Six months' progress on #Okehampton Interchange station, set to open in 2026. The newest addition to the Dartmoor Line, connecting West Devon, Torridge and North Cornwall with Exeter and beyond: 👉 networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/pics-new-… 📷 : Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership

🎺A fitting tribute to @OzzyOsbourne in the station today, from the amazing @TheCBSO 🎸Playing @BlackSabbath in front of @BrummieBull was an emotional moment 👊🏼 We’re so proud to host events that celebrate this great city and its amazing people #birminghamforever

💦 This Plastic Free July we thank you for refilling at the free cold water fountains at Britain's biggest railway stations: 👉 networkrail.co.uk/communities/pa… You've saved about 10m plastic bottles from landfill. #PlasticFreeJuly #PlasticFree #WaterFountain

Jeremy Westlake has been appointed as the new chief executive of Network Rail. Jeremy has served as our chief financial officer since 2016 and will officially step into the role in October after the retirement of chief executive Sir Andrew Haines. ➡️ networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/network-r…

Looking to kickstart your career in engineering❓ Meet Mohammad, a civil engineering graduate, as he shares what it’s like to be part of one of the UK’s biggest infrastructure organisations. Find out more about our early #careers opportunities here: 👉 networkrail.co.uk/careers/early-…

RIP Ozzy Osbourne, whose memory we are proud to honour at Birmingham New Street. #OzzyOsbourne #OzzyOsbourneRIP

🎉 We welcomed Rail Minister Lord Hendy today to celebrate the country's first ‘no signals’ commuter railway. Safer, greener and more reliable trains now run on the Northern City Line thanks to our £1.4bn East Coast Digital Programme: ➡️ networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/great-nor… #ECDP

💪 We're carrying out major resilience work next week on the #SevernEstuary between Gloucester and #SevernTunnel Junction. It will help improve the safety and reliability of your journeys through an area historically prone to landslips: 👉 networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/two-weeks…

🤝 🛤️ A £500m five-year deal between us and #BritishSteel has secured thousands of jobs and will deliver between 70,000 and 80,000 tonnes of rail a year. That's enough to stretch between London and Edinburgh: ➡️ gov.uk/government/new… @transportgovuk

🚆 We're fitting 21st century digital in-cab signalling technology inside hundreds of freight locomotives. It's a big step towards greener and more reliable journeys for you and freight: 👉 networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/freight-d… #ECDP #Freight

🛤️ We're restoring the rail line between Bristol city centre and #Portishead, which was last used six decades ago. Plus, two new stations at Pill and Portishead will bring thousands of people closer to the railway: 👉 networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/key-rail-… #Bristol @networkrailwest

⚠️ @metoffice has issued a yellow weather warning for heavy rain and thunderstorms in much of Britain today. Check if your journey's affected with your train operator or National Rail: ➡️ nationalrail.co.uk #Thunderstorm #Storm #WeatherAware @nationalrailenq

28% of rail journeys are now run by the public operator. Can Transport Secretary @Heidi_Labour explain what public ownership means in 28 seconds?

🚨🤝@c2c_Rail to public ownership, here we go! Transfer confirmed! Next step in encouraging more people to take the train and deliver the world class service that passengers deserve.

Our roof upgrade at London Waterloo approaches the halfway mark. 🏁 Freight gets ready for digital signalling on the East Coast Main Line. 📶 And we pay special tribute to one of our hidden heroes. 🦸 It's #WeekOnTheNetwork