Network Rail engineers have installed 2,300 sleepers along with ballast, the stones that form the track bed, ready for the start of the installation of track in the coming months.

Shrewsbury residents and station users have been invited to a drop-in event to find out more about the second phase of upgrade work at the historic Shrewsbury station, which will begin in November 2018.

Network Rail is advising passengers of platform alterations as engineering activity gets underway at Barnetby station.

The £68m modernisation of the Norwich Yarmouth Lowestoft railways took a major step forward last week (19 – 29 October) towards the switch-over from a Victorian era signalling system as the third phase of re-signalling works were completed following a nine-day suspension of rail services.

Passengers travelling between Wigan and Southport are being urged to check before they travel as essential maintenance work at a level crossing in Parbold is affecting journeys.

Residents across the south east are being reminded to have their say on plans for a major railway upgrade when a public consultation begins on November 5.

• Repairs to four breakwaters, which protect the coast from the force of waves, will begin in November to immediately improve protection for the Dawlish sea wall and the railway running along the coast
• The work is expected to take six months and community events will be held in Dawlish, Teignmouth and Holcombe in the coming weeks for local communities to find out more