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Passengers arriving at West Calder on Monday April 9 will notice a significant difference in their station with the removal of the old and opening of the new station footbridge.

Network Rail is reminding motorists that work starts this weekend to upgrade a level crossing north of Doncaster to include state-of-the-art radar technology and full length barriers.

Rail diversions in West Yorkshire will stay in place until Monday after a landslip above a tunnel caused extensive damage.

Network Rail engineers will begin track upgrade work in Abergele this month as part of the £50m North Wales railway upgrade project.

Passengers travelling to or from Liverpool Lime Street this Sunday (8 April) are being urged to plan ahead as vital upgrade work will mean changes to journeys.

Passengers are being reminded Ashton-under-Lyne station will close for 16 days while work takes place to provide better journeys between Manchester Victoria and Stalybridge.

Rail passengers in the Sutton, Wimbledon and Mitcham areas can look forward to more reliable journeys after a five-year project to improve their railway was completed over Easter.

Network Rail delivered their biggest ever signalling upgrade today (4 April) with the £130m work enabling GWR to deliver more frequent services to London, quicker journeys and more seats per train from 2019.