The first direct rail link in more than 50 years between Oxford, Bedford, Milton Keynes and Aylesbury has been given the green light for further work.

• Six-year contract to VP Plc for the maintenance, repair and supply of small plant
• Leading to cost savings of £2.5m per year
• 42 apprenticeships to be created with VP Plc

Nitshill Road, south of Glasgow, will close overnight on eight consecutive Saturdays while Network Rail engineers carry out work to repair and strengthen the railway bridge over the A726.

Network Rail is urging passengers in the Calder Valley to check before travelling as there will be nine days of changes to services to allow vital canal bridge repairs to take place later this month. 

Network Rail and the Railway Children charity have teamed up to raise over £9000 which will be used to help the thousands of vulnerable children who use the railway every year.

Following the derailment at Eastleigh station repairs continue on site as Network Rail engineers work around the clock to reopen the stretch of railway damaged after six 52 tonne wagons came off the track.

Network Rail have teamed up with the charity Railway Children to host a second annual sleepout event in railway stations across the country, raising money and awareness for the work being done to help the thousands of vulnerable children who pass through the railway every year.

Rail passengers are being warned to plan ahead while essential canal bridge repairs take place for nine days in East Lancashire next month.