Engineers are about to start a mega, once-in-a-generation package of work around Stalybridge station to drive down delays and deliver a better, more reliable and greener railway for passengers.

This weekend, engineers will have installed half of the foundations needed for an electrified railway between Kettering and Wigston as part of the Midland Main Line upgrade.

Work on a £5m project to improve accessibility at Port Glasgow station in Inverclyde is set to commence next month.

MP Tracey Crouch joined friends from the community and the railway to celebrate the official opening of Chatham station’s £5.8m lifts and footbridge, providing step-free access between the station entrance, ticket office and platforms.

The new bridge on Nithsdale Road, in the southside of Glasgow, will open this evening.

Engineers working to repair a huge landslip at Hook in Hampshire will temporarily remodel undamaged track to give passengers a better train service while long-term repairs continue.

Network Rail has donated a number of safety helmets to Platform, a rail education organisation, for use in their school railway safety workshops.

Network Rail has welcomed funding announced today (19 January) by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities for two new transformational rail schemes in the south west.