Network Rail has vowed to keep disruption to passengers to a minimum as it carries out vital improvement work on the Tarka line between Exeter and Barnstaple during March.

Engineers are beginning the slow process of removing spoil from Hatfield colliery which has severely damaged the railway in Stainforth.

Now that the spoil heap has stopped moving the teams have conducted more detailed surveys of the damage and are planning the work which needs to be completed to restore rail services through the area.

Go-ahead given for redevelopment of 1 Aire Street

To help deliver improvement works at Reading station the section of the passenger bridge which links the station to the multi-storey car park will close for good on Friday March 1st as the newly refurbished subway opens on the same day.

In a move unique to the UK rail sector, Network Rail, Atkins, Laing O’Rourke and VolkerRail have formed the industry’s first ‘pure construction alliance’ to deliver the circa £250 million Stafford Area Improvement Programme (SAIP) on the West Coast Main Line.

Trees are to be planted along the railway in Whitstable next week to replace those which were recently removed for safety reasons.

Worcester Foregate Street rail bridge will officially be reopened at 11am on Friday 22 February by Network Rail and contractors J. Murphy & Sons Limited.

Residents will be able to find out about work to build a new stretch of track that will help to take more freight off the roads and onto rail.