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• Derbyshire rail passengers can expect a more reliable railway as Network Rail renew the track through Belper this weekend (Sat 9 and Sun 10 July)
• The essential £500k project will bring smoother journeys for passengers right along the Midland Main Line and help more trains to run on time
• Buses will replace trains between Derby and Sheffield/Matlock – passengers should check before they travel with National Rail Enquiries

Network Rail and Balfour Beatty welcomed back North Queensferry Primary School last Wednesday (June 29) for a picnic and to bury a time capsule next to the iconic Forth Bridge.

Network Rail will invest more than £120m of Scottish Government funding in the next three years to boost the electricity power supply into Scotland’s railway network.

A £3.5m refurbishment of a 134-year-old railway viaduct in Kent is about to get underway, with three weekends of engineering work planned for this summer - starting on Saturday (2 July).

Fly-tippers in the Deepdale area of Preston are being urged to stop dumping waste on railway land or face criminal consequences.

Network Rail’s resilience programme begins in July and has been specially designed to protect the line from extreme-weather landslips, caused by climate change. 

Major progress on the £145m Hope Valley railway upgrade is on track this summer, with changes to services between Sheffield and Manchester every weekend in July.

An ambitious multi-billion-pound rail upgrade in West Yorkshire has now been given the green light, bringing a faster, greener, better-connected railway one step closer for passengers in the North of England. It’s the biggest milestone the Transpennine Route Upgrade has ever achieved.