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Toilets at Manchester Piccadilly, Leeds and Liverpool Lime Street railway stations will be free to use from next Monday.

Network Rail and main contractor Taziker have won best entry at the 2018 National Railway Heritage Awards for the £75m restoration of the Tay Bridge.

Work is underway to install new lifts at Lichfield Trent Valley station to ensure it's accessible for everyone by summer 2019.

• 72% of people who responded to the consultation support the potential new rail link from Reading and Slough to London Heathrow Airport

Ongoing RMT strike action threatens to result in unusually busy trains this Saturday.

Shrewsbury residents and station users are reminded that work to refurbish Dana Footbridge will begin on Friday 14 December 2018. During the essential refurbishment work, the footbridge will be closed to pedestrians, with a diversion route in place via Castle Gates and Howard Street.

Network Rail is investing £3m to replace 5,000 yards of ageing and worn out track on the Cumbrian coast line to provide smoother, faster and more reliable journeys for passengers.

• Rail industry teams up with Thomas the Tank Engine to teach children how to stay safe on the railway
• Free book is distributed in libraries, nurseries and doctor's surgeries across south London, Kent, Sussex and Surrey
• Lord Mayor of Canterbury launches book by reading to children at Choo Choo day nursery in Whitstable