Passengers will benefit from a better, more reliable railway in 2020 thanks to upgrade and maintenance work taking place this Christmas and New Year.

Network Rail is urging parents in East Yorkshire to speak to their children about the dangers of playing on the railway after shocking images show two teenage girls trespassing on the tracks in Howden.

Passengers using the Brighton Main Line this morning between Brighton and Gatwick are being urged not to travel as flooding on the railway is severely impacting services.

Rail passengers in South Wales are reminded to check before they travel over the Christmas and New Year period as Network Rail upgrades the railway ahead of electric services being introduced.

Network Rail and Strukton Rail have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to support the delivery of Network Rail’s £245m research and development (R&D) portfolio in Control Period 6.

Birmingham New Street station is staging a Christmas Eve banquet for 350 homeless and vulnerable people.

As people open their presents and sit down for Christmas dinner, hundreds of Network Rail engineers will continue work on a major project to install a dive under, a tunnel under the railway, just outside of Peterborough station as part of the East Coast Upgrade.

Over 300 Network Rail staff will be giving up their Christmases to work on a project to remodel one and a half miles of track outside of London King’s Cross station, which is a vital part of the £1.2 billion East Coast Upgrade.