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Secretary of State for Wales, Stephen Crabb MP and Wales Office Minister Alun Cairns visited the Wales rail operating centre in Cardiff today to see how state-of-the-art technology makes running the railway more efficient and reliable for passengers.

A minor derailment involving a freight train carrying industrial pipes occurred shortly before 08:00 today (Friday, February 6) at Georgemas Junction on the Far North line.

People across the west, south west and Thames Valley can learn about and have their say at a series of public exhibitions being held this month, on plans for a new link connecting the railway into Paddington from the west with London Heathrow airport.

Passengers will be able to use services on the main line from London Euston, the West Coast main line, as Network Rail today announced that it was cancelling its work planned for Watford over two weekends in February.

On the first anniversary of the notorious storms at Dawlish, time-lapse photography shows the extensive work undertaken by Network Rail’s ‘orange army’ over the last year to restore the south west’s rail connection and make the area more resilient for the future.

5 February 2015 marks the one year anniversary of the severe storms which battered the Devon coastline, and washed away part of the Dawlish railway line and sea-wall.

A large landslip near Harbury Tunnel is to keep the line closed between Banbury and Leamington Spa for several weeks.

The footbridge over the railway at Templars Firs reopened yesterday, Monday 2 February, after work to prepare it for electrification was completed on time.