Damage to signalling equipment in the Streatham Common area is causing major disruption to services this morning with no Southern or Gatwick Express services able to serve London Victoria and knock-on disruption to Thameslink services. Passengers are advised not to travel.

Residents in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, are invited to a public event to hear more about plans to close Holts Lane footpath crossing.

With Britain’s heatwave set to continue into the weekend, passengers travelling on the Brighton Main Line this Sunday are urged to consider their travel plans as engineering work will mean no trains are able to run between Three Bridges and Brighton and Three Bridges and Lewes.

Network Rail has commissioned a short film ‘18’ to highlight the dangers of trespassing on electrified railway and the devastating and far-reaching consequences this can have.

• Record £4.1bn spend on projects to improve the railway.
• Exceptional safety record continues.
• Reliability and performance of infrastructure assets continue at historically high levels.
• Cost efficiencies remain challenging.
• Train performance below industry expectations owing to increased congestion and severe weather events.

Network Rail will carry out £500k of repair and strengthening work to Chalkwell station footbridge, starting from Monday 9 July.

Network Rail will partner with the Scottish Football Association to deliver a series of football camps across central Scotland with the aim of getting young people to stay safe around the railway.

Network Rail reconfirmed its pledge to the armed forces community by re-signing its Armed Forces Covenant on Reservists Day.