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Passengers are being advised about work starting next month to renew the platform 1 lift at Wolverhampton station.

Network Rail teams are on site in Whitby and carrying out vital work to a railway embankment in the seaside town to prevent a landslip and keep trains moving reliably and safely.

Great Northern and Network Rail today (Friday 11 December) gave passengers on the Fen Line between Cambridge and King’s Lynn a taste of the new twice-longer eight-carriage service that will boost space and seats on trains from Sunday (13 December).

A major collaboration between Network Rail and Yorkshire based photojournalist Jude Palmer has seen a 225-metre exhibition of work from the project ‘Love of Leeds’ installed at Leeds railway station.

A Christmas collection has been organised at Birmingham New Street so people passing through the station can donate to local food banks and charities.

The rail industry is appealing for people to send their messages of hope and goodwill to attach to special Christmas trees at Manchester Piccadilly station.

Network Rail has today (11 December) completed its work to upgrade the railway in west Cornwall which means passengers will have more reliable journeys.

Three months on from the Llangennech freight train fire, remediation work to remove and replace 12,000 cubic metres of diesel contaminated soil around the site has begun.