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This World Habitat Day (Monday 2 October), Network Rail is celebrating a partnership with Natural England and Somerset Wildlife Trust that’s working to restore and enhance the habitat for a rare butterfly, the Large Blue, at Welham Cutting in Somerset. 

Residents in Llanharan are being invited to a drop-in event to find out more about work to install a new footbridge near Trenos level crossing.  

Following an increase in railway trespass incidents in the vicinity of the Portway based football club, Network Rail has worked with the sports facility to implement measures to keep the balls on the pitch. 

Network Rail has announced that the road underneath Botley Road bridge in Oxford is to remain closed until October 2024, after a number of unique challenges delayed the project this summer. 

This weekend Network Rail will begin the core phase of work to change the way the railway is run in Cornwall.

• Registration has opened for the biggest free wellbeing event for the rail industry, Rail Wellbeing Live (RWL) 
• Dates announced as 7-9 November  
• Over 40 pick ‘n’ mix sessions to choose from, all free to attend 
• Evening sessions for night shift workers 

Work is underway to make St Erth station in West Cornwall fully accessible for the first time.

Network Rail is reminding Reading festival-goers that Reading station will close early this Saturday evening because of industrial action by the RMT.