Network Rail is inviting residents to find out more about fencing and vegetation work in Den Lane, Uppermill, Oldham.

Network Rail has released a compilation of deliberate misuse at Poole High Street level crossing as it was revealed that more than a third of all incidents³ at level crossings in the county happen there.

West Calder station’s new, fully-accessible footbridge and lifts have opened to passengers, as part of a multi-million-pound transformation of the West Lothian station.

Network Rail is urging Great Eastern Main Line passengers to check before travelling over the next few days, as engineers work to fix a major track fault at London Liverpool Street station.

Three Network Rail employees have today been honoured in the Queen’s birthday honours list:

• Ian Stevens, programme manager, MBE, for services to suicide prevention
• Scott Heath, project manager, BEM, for services to the LGBT community
• Mark Carne, chief executive, CBE, for services to the railway industry

Direct services to run between Liverpool Lime Street and Manchester Victoria and Wigan

Network Rail engineers working on the refurbishment of South Esk viaduct in Montrose have uncovered shrapnel marks and bullet holes on the structure consistent with a bombing and a strafing attack by the Luftwaffe during World War 2.