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Residents and businesses at Lidlington in Bedfordshire are being invited to have their say on Network Rail’s railway upgrade plan.

Residents in the Cheshunt area are being reminded the importance of obeying signals and signs at level crossings, following a spike in potentially dangerous incidents at level crossings in Trinity Lane, Waltham Cross and Wharf Road, Broxbourne.

Yorkshire triathlon duo Alistair and Jonathan Brownlee took control of the station microphone as special guest announcers ahead of the Columbia Threadneedle World Triathlon in Leeds on 12 June.

Journeys into London will be more reliable for passengers travelling on the busy line from Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex following successful completion of vital upgrade work over the spring bank holiday (28-30 May).

Fans of the famous Flying Scotsman are being urged to keep off the tracks and enjoy a safe day out when the recently renovated locomotive tours visit Wales next week.

Commuters returned to work today on a better, more reliable railway thanks to the efforts of Network Rail’s orange army, who worked round-the-clock to improve the network over the bank holiday weekend.

A new ‘virtual route’ for rail freight and national passenger operators will become Network Rail’s ninth devolved operational route.

• More than 40,000 hours worked at 19 different locations in outer London, Berkshire and Essex to prepare tracks, infrastructure and stations for new railway that will be known as the Elizabeth line
• A selection of images of the Spring bank holiday Crossrail project works are available to download below