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With the August bank holiday weekend upon us, passengers are being advised to check before they travel with planned railway improvement work in the Greater Manchester and Milton Keynes areas.

Working with Colchester United Football Club, Network Rail is encouraging young people to kick the habit of trespassing on the railway, particularly with the late summer bank holiday this weekend.

Wales and Western’s rail network will benefit from £9.4m worth of investment over the August bank holiday weekend (Saturday 24 to Monday 26 August inclusive), as 1,600 Network Rail staff will work a combined total of 17,392 hours to carry out vital upgrades to improve rail performance for passengers and freight.

Residents are invited to a drop-in session in Dawlish, Devon, to update them ahead of work restarting on the new sea wall which will help protect the town and the railway from extreme weather and rising sea levels for generations to come.

• Significant disruption to journeys to/from London this August Bank Holiday weekend
• On 24/25 August, no trains will run between Peterborough and London King’s Cross or Cambridge and London St Pancras International
• Work is part of East Coast Upgrade, which is a £1.2billion investment into the route

• Significant disruption to journeys to/from London this August Bank Holiday weekend with passengers urged not to travel
• On 24/25 August, no trains will run between Peterborough or Cambridge and London King’s Cross or London St Pancras International. There will be no trains between Stevenage and Moorgate
• Work is part of East Coast Upgrade, which is a £1.2billion investment into the route

Network Rail has awarded major contracts to both Altran and AECOM to support the delivery of work within its Safety, Technical and Engineering (STE) Strategic Plan over Control Period 6 (2019-2024).

Work to reinforce a 173-year-old railway viaduct is providing a more reliable railway for passengers and helping protect endangered crayfish in Cumbria.