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• Network Rail signs new five-year contract with JCDecaux to handle in-station advertising
• Deal will see Network Rail move to 100% digital advertising within its managed stations
• Contract follows installation of iconic screens and recent successful in-station advertising campaigns including Jurassic World and Fast and Furious films

Passenger services between Birmingham New Street and Nuneaton are being affected following the derailment of seven wagons of a freight train.

Network Rail and Merseyrail today issued a plea to pedestrians to use Crescent Road level crossing in Birkdale safely after three people narrowly missed being hit by a train.

Train service punctuality is improving for customers in the North, thanks to an ongoing team effort by the rail industry to fix the timetable problems which happened in May this year.

A £4.25m upgrade project will commence in 2019 to replace the Pembroke Road railway bridge and the Milford Road railway bridge in Merlins Bridge, Haverfordwest, west Wales.

Rail passengers travelling through Devon and Dorset have been reminded to check their journeys before travelling from this weekend as Network Rail delivers a £9.5 million scheme to protect a flood-prone stretch of railway in the south west.

Network Rail is urging level crossing users to stay safe as a level crossing on the Felixstowe branch line reopens following a serious collision at the beginning of the year.