The railway between Southampton and Bournemouth will close for five days from Monday 1 to Friday 5 November to deliver a range of long-term improvements making journeys more reliable and resilient to extreme weather.

• Network Rail completes vital stage of work in a project to install a tunnel at Werrington, north of Peterborough
• Engineers completed work on the signalling system over the weekend- with no disruption to passenger train services
• Essential work will now take place to test the new tunnel ready for freight trains to use it from this winter

Major work will take place later this month on a project to install a new accessible footbridge over the railway at Suggitt’s Lane in Cleethorpes - which will connect people in the seaside town with the beachfront.

Railway workers and community volunteers have joined forces to make Bletchley station more pleasant for passengers.

The Queensferry community will have the chance to hear about revised proposals to install a bridge walk and visitor hub at the south side of the Forth Bridge.

Network Rail has awarded a contract to a consortium led by Thales Ground Transportation Systems Ltd to develop and trial Fibre Optic Acoustic Sensing (FOAS) technology that will support improvements in safety and performance on the railway.

The completion of this project has resulted in a clever new track layout and state of the art signalling equipment, meaning passengers will experience better journeys when travelling to and from Bristol Temple Meads station.

Ecologists are relocating fish in the River Trent during work to protect two major railway viaducts on the West Coast main line.