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The M62 motorway near Rochdale will undergo two full weekend closures starting this weekend as Network Rail’s £22M bridge replacement at Castleton gets underway.

Network Rail’s finances “deteriorated” in the last financial year and the organisation has warned that route directors “need to understand the tight financial management required” during the “critical first year of the new control period”.

New imagery of the proposed upgrades to Mossley and Greenfield stations has been released ahead of the public consultation of the Stalybridge to Diggle section of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU).

Network Rail has begun its installation of an active travel bridge over the River Leven and recently completed £116M Levenmouth Rail Link. 

Access for All, Network Rail’s programme of works designed to provide step-free access to platforms at railway stations has been described in board minutes as “significantly” underperforming.

Rail minister and former Network Rail chair Lord Hendy had an engineer at Systra sacked by threatening to withdraw business from the consultancy unless action was taken after the employee publicly commented on safety concerns at Euston station.

Paralympian and member of the House of Lords Tanni Grey-Thompson was forced to “crawl off” a London North Eastern Railway (LNER) train at King’s Cross station, leading to criticism from disability campaigners and calls for greater focus on level boarding for accessibility.

Skanska has completed £450M of enabling works at Euston station in preparation for the new High Speed 2 (HS2) London terminus, which remains unfunded.

The railway at New Mills, south east of Manchester, has been closed for a month while Network Rail undertakes repairs to an embankment following a failure in April.

A ‘uniquely designed bridge’ that carried the Greek Street roundabout in Stockport over the West Coast main line is being replaced by Network Rail in a project expected to cost £16M.