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Passengers travelling between Hunts Cross and Liverpool Central are being asked to check before they travel this month as two railway bridge upgrades will affect services over two weekends.

Network Rail engineers have completed work to upgrade the open level crossing at Delny.

Engineers have completed the partial demolition of Splott Road bridge as work continues to prepare the railway from London to Cardiff for the overhead wires and posts needed to power trains running on electricity.

Network Rail is looking for six new apprentices in Norfolk and Suffolk for its award-winning engineering apprenticeship scheme to start in March next year.

The redevelopment of London Bridge station and the surrounding railway ­– part of the government-sponsored Thameslink Programme – moved a step closer to completion this weekend after a successful eight days of engineering work to the railway in central London completed on-time.

The public are being reminded that overhead power cables on the main Edinburgh-Glasgow line will be live for testing from this Saturday (September 2).

Passengers will be able to travel by train between Bolton and Manchester next week when the line reopens early after a burst water main caused major damage to a bridge.

Passengers who use Edinburgh Waverley station are being reminded that the escalators on Platform 11 will be out of use from the evening of Saturday, September 2, until early 2018.