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Network Rail is calling on former or retired signallers in the Wales and Border route area to help keep the railway moving during the current coronavirus event.

Network Rail employees have worked together to help one colleague’s partner make protective gowns for NHS nurses in Northamptonshire.

Network Rail has thanked people who usually use King’s Cross railway station for following government guidance and only travelling when essential as new figures show that footfall at the station has decreased by 92%*.

Network Rail has thanked people who usually use Leeds railway station for following government guidance and only travelling when essential, as new figures show that footfall at the station has decreased by 94%*.

Network Rail’s station teams are inviting the public to send them home-made pictures of rainbows with a railway theme which will be displayed at Bristol Temple Meads, Reading and London Paddington.

• Only essential journeys should be made over the Easter weekend
• Reduced timetable will be in operation, while Network Rail’s reduced engineering works programme will also affect some routes
• People who do need to use the railway should check before they travel

• Cave believed to be dated from the 14^th century
• Considered to be a later medieval shrine or hermitage.
• Thought to have associations with the nearby chapel of St Catherine

Every week, Network Rail’s key workers enable millions of tonnes of vital medical supplies, food, drinks and consumer goods to be transported around Great Britain during the Coronavirus crisis, including over 150,000 tonnes of freight which is moved by rail across Lincolnshire.