Hundreds of thousands of passengers and freight users are set to benefit from one of the biggest Christmas and New Year investment programmes ever carried out on Britain’s rail network.

Motorists will have less time to wait at Oulton Broad North level crossing near Lowestoft after changes made by Network Rail.

Work to transform the second of three platforms at Moorfields station will take place from 4 January 2016.

A Network Rail test train has run through central London completely under the control of the European Train Control System (ETCS) over two weekends of testing.

Hundreds of thousands of passengers and freight users are set to benefit from one of the biggest Christmas and New Year investment programmes ever carried out on Britain’s rail network.

Salford City FC co-owner and former Manchester United and England superstar Paul Scholes has helped launch a new railway safety initiative which aims to cut the number of young people who are killed or injured after trespassing on the railway.

Workers at a major development near Stafford have set a track-laying record as they enter the final stages in the construction of a new rail-over-rail flyover.

Engineers building a new railway flyover near Stafford have set a new track-laying record, with more than 4km of new track installed over the weekend.