Network Rail




Dates

  /02/2003Deeside Railway
Network Rail will not allow the Royal Deeside Railway access to the Ferryhill Shed [2nd] site, which NR plans to be redeveloped.
09/04/2003Network Rail
Janette Anderson leaves Network Rail for First Engineering.
  /01/2005Edinburgh Trams
Network Rail objects to plan to cross Haymarket station. This plan would have involved loss of the car park and not allowed station expansion. Further west it suggested expansion of Haymarket Depot would be impossible.
05/01/2005Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
Following local opposition Network Rail's planned closure of Bainfield Level Crossing does not go ahead.
30/07/2005Glasgow, Dumbarton and Helensburgh Railway
Dumbarton Sherriff Court grants an injunction to Argyll and Bute Council to refuse Network Rail's plan to close up Bainfield Level Crossing on the weekend of the 30th.
14/11/2005Nottingham and Melton Line (Midland Railway)
Neither Network Rail nor the Government express any interest in taking over the now redundant test track.
04/12/2005Caledonian Railway
Network Rail's upgrade of line north from Preston to Glasgow Central will allow 125mph running.
  /04/2006Corrour Summit Druimuachdar Summit Slochd Summit
New summit signs erected to replace the older signs at three summits. Funded by First ScotRail, Friends of the West Highland Lines, GNER, Highland Railway Partnership, Network Rail and the Railway Heritage Trust.
22/05/2006Callander and Oban Railway
New timber terminal at Crianlarich Lower proposed by Argyll Timber Transport Group, English, Welsh and Scottish Railway, Network Rail and Kronospan, taking 6,500 trucks off the road annually. (Not opened.)
  /  /2007Inverness and Perth Junction Railway
Network Rail gifts 1/2 a mile of track from further south on the mainline at Dalreach to be used for the extension of the preserved Strathspey Railway [Preserved] north of Broomhill.
09/12/2011Forth Bridge Railway
Painting of the Forth Bridge completed. Network Rail suggests no further painting to be required until 2031-36. A glass flake epoxy paint used by Balfour Beatty.
06/09/2015Edinburgh and Hawick Railway (North British Railway)Millerhill Deviation (Network Rail)
Newcraighall North Junction to Tweedbank opened to passengers with stations at Shawfair, Eskbank, Newtongrange, Gorebridge, Stow, Galashiels and Tweedbank. Newcraighall Junction renamed Newcraighall North Junction.
  /03/2019Network Rail
The Glasgow St Enoch station clock is requested from Cumbernauld for the rebuilt Glasgow Queen Street High Level.
21/06/2022Network Rail
21, 23, 25 June : strikes over pay by RMT signallers at Network Rail reduce ScotRail to five daytime routes in the Central Belt, with last Anglo-Scottish trains much earlier than normal.