From Saturday 18 October until Monday 17 November, vital improvements work will fully then partially close the Island Line on the Isle of Wight.

On Sunday (August 17), engineers completed a series of railway upgrades between Manchester, Huddersfield and Leeds following seven consecutive weekends of work, as part of the multi-billion-pound Transpennine Route Upgrade.

This August bank holiday, much of the railway network across East Anglia will be open for passengers to travel and enjoy exciting destinations across Essex, Suffolk, Cambridge and Norfolk, as well as into the capital.

Passengers are reminded that digital signalling work will affect East Coast Main Line journeys on the August bank holiday weekend.

Network Rail has completed a vital programme of stabilisation work at Little Haywood cutting, located within the Shugborough Estate and Cannock Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), to ensure the continued safe and reliable operation of the railway for passengers and freight services.

The vast majority of the rail network will be open for business this August bank holiday weekend, so passengers can make the most of the long summer weekend to visit friends and family and travel to the hundreds of events taking place across Britain.

Engineers will soon begin an 18-week project to renew the Banff Turnpike railway bridge on the A95 in Keith. 

Newly upgraded platforms at Hillington West station will fully reopen this Sunday following the completion of a major £2.9 million improvement project.