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Passengers planning to travel by rail on Monday 23 and Tuesday 24 December are being advised to check with their train operator before travelling, as gale-force winds and heavy rain will mean changes to some scheduled services.

Network Rail has completed a project to refurbish historic Hellifield station in the Yorkshire Dales.

Transport Minister Keith Brown officially opened Haymarket station’s new main building and concourse today (Thursday, December 19) as the £25m redevelopment of the facility nears completion.

Rail passengers are being reminded that road transport will replace trains through Peterborough on Friday 27 December. This will allow work to remove a bottle neck on the East Coast Main Line. Network Rail, East Coast and First Capital Connect are working together to provide additional passenger support at Huntingdon, Peterborough and Grantham stations. Passengers are advised to travel on another date if possible and to check with their operator or National Rail Enquiries before they set off.

Motorists using Longpool and Shap road in Kendal should allow extra time for their journeys from January as Network Rail starts a major project to spruce up Longpool railway bridge in the town.

A year on since the floods in 2012, Network Rail has invested around £5m in a combination of resilient measures to help protect the railway around Devon from weather impact.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has today announced a statistical change to its classification of Network Rail as a result of changes in European accounting guidelines.

One of two war memorial plaques from Birmingham New Street station has been donated by Network Rail to the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire for display as part of its valued collection of over 300 memorials.