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One hundred and seventy-nine people have been involved in slips, trips or falls at stations across the West Midlands and Staffordshire in 2011/12, so Network Rail is urging passengers to watch their step in the run up to Christmas.

Three hundred and twenty-five people have been involved in slips, trips or falls at stations across Cheshire and Merseyside in 2011/12, so Network Rail is urging passengers to watch their step in the run up to Christmas.

One hundred and fifty-five people have been involved in slips, trips or falls at stations across Greater Manchester in 2011/12, so Network Rail is urging passengers to watch their step in the run up to Christmas.

Milverton Viaduct, which carries the railway line from Coventry through Leamington Spa town centre, is to be refurbished during the Christmas holidays.

Abellio train operator Greater Anglia today (Monday December 10) introduced a new hourly service between Ipswich and Lowestoft after work to install a passing loop was completed at Beccles.

Network Rail has awarded two contracts for works in west London that will deliver important infrastructure improvements for the Crossrail programme, allowing greater numbers of passenger and freight trains to run more reliably once the new rail link opens in 2018.