Football fans, bargain-hunters and revellers in the north are being warned of busier-than-usual trains this Saturday (Dec 29th).

Network Rail engineers will be working to complete more than £10m of maintenance and enhancement work over the Christmas and New Year holidays.

Network Rail is advising passengers travelling between Ayrshire and Inverclyde into Glasgow to expect changes to their services on each weekend in January as engineers undertake a range of works on the railway.

Passengers travelling between Crewe and Manchester are being advised to plan ahead as work to replace a bridge over the West Coast main line will ramp up in early 2019.

Testing and commissioning for the Walsall-Rugeley railway electrification scheme was completed last night.

This Christmas, while most of us will be exchanging presents and spending time with families, 25,000 railway workers will be carrying out a major £148 million upgrade of Britain’s railway.

The capital’s busiest toilets are set to close from Christmas Eve until April 2019 as Network Rail undertakes a major redesign and refurbishment of the facilities at London Victoria station.

Network Rail has announced the award of three multi-billion-pound contracts for the South of England, worth up to £7bn for Control Period 6 (2019-2024).