Volunteers from Network Rail teamed up with the TransWilts Community Rail Partnership and Knorr-Bremse, a leading manufacturer of rail safety systems, to improve the environment around Melksham station in Wiltshire, including the area outside the popular Melksham Hub Café.

This weekend (Saturday 10 and Sunday 11 September), major work to upgrade a bridge near Kettering will make headway, eventually allowing cleaner and quieter electric trains to be introduced to this section of the Midland Main Line. 

Buses replace trains for five weeks from Monday 12 September, between Machynlleth and Pwllheli, while essential upgrades are safely carried out on the iconic northwest Wales railway bridge.

Beverley station’s 130-year-old Grade II-listed footbridge will close this week to keep station users, train drivers and passengers safe, before being sympathetically refurbished next year.

Rail passengers are being thanked for their patience after a burst water main at Audenshaw in east Manchester caused disruption to trains for five days.

Network Rail is urging passengers to check before travelling and to plan ahead, with four consecutive weekends of disruption to train services due to start this weekend.

Residents in Dibden, Eling, Fawley, Hythe and Marchwood are being encouraged to provide their feedback on Network Rail’s proposals for the Waterside Line, with the consultation period set to end on Friday 9 September.

Special guests from East Grinstead and across the railway industry joined together to celebrate the opening of a new footbridge and lifts on Friday (2 September), improving accessibility for passengers at their local station.