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Many passengers will be able to travel by rail over the busy August bank holiday (Saturday 24 to Monday 26 August) as most of the network is open, however, some lines will be closed for essential engineering works.

• £1.2billion investment will see first closure of East Coast Main Line in 20 years
• Passengers warned of significant changes to services and extremely busy trains
• Services to and from London most heavily impacted as line closure between Peterborough/Cambridge and London King’s Cross/London St Pancras International

• £1.2billion investment will see first closure of East Coast Main Line in 20 years
• No trains able to run between Peterborough or Cambridge and London King’s Cross or London St Pancras International
• Passengers urged not to travel to/from London on Saturday, 24 and Sunday 25 August

Rob McIntosh, managing director of Network Rail’s Eastern Region, has today announced several appointments to his new senior management team.

Network Rail is advising passengers intending to use the West Coast Main Line to ‘check before they travel’ as a multi-million-pound upgrade of a major railway junction near Warrington begins this weekend.

New footage from the front of a train travelling over Acton Grange junction on the West Coast main line shows how it's 'out with the old and in with the new' when its £27m transformation starts tomorrow (20 July).

Network Rail is today advising passengers in part of East Sussex to plan ahead as work to complete a major upgrade of the line between Lewes and Seaford means buses¹ will replace trains on various routes via Lewes. This is for four days, Thursday 28 November - Sunday 1 December 2019.

Network Rail today published its annual report and accounts for the 12 months to 31 March 2019, a year which saw almost 3,000 new services a week added to the network providing much needed capacity and extra seats as investment in Britain’s infrastructure hit a record high.