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Birmingham New Street saw a record number of people using the station last weekend as the city's Christmas market kicked off the festive season.

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Network Rail’s continues its support for the prestigious Landscape Photographer of the Year competition with the opening of an exhibition of the best entries from 2016 launching at London Waterloo station.

Network Rail has closed the footpath level crossing at Stone station after repeated incidents of dangerous misuse were revealed.

Network Rail continues its support for the prestigious Landscape Photographer of the Year competition with the opening of an exhibition of the best entries from 2016 launching at London Waterloo station this evening (Monday 21 November).

• Covered rank within New Street car park among planned improvements for station

A new taxi rank making use of land within New Street car park has been confirmed for Edinburgh Waverley. The announcement comes in advance of the next phase of station improvement work due to begin in 2017.

Passengers are being reminded that work to provide a better railway across the north of England will mean changes to train services this Christmas.

Passengers using Whitton station will now benefit from £5 million worth of upgrades at their station, after Network Rail’s route managing director, Becky Lumlock, officially marked the completion of the final phase of the upgrade – a new, fully-accessible footbridge – alongside MP for Twickenham, Dr Tania Mathias, and representatives from Richmond Borough Council, the  Rugby Football Union and South West Trains.