Network Rail will reach a major milestone in its project to upgrade the Midland Main Line, as it carries out track improvements in Kettering, as part of the Railway Upgrade Plan.

Residents of Bath and Keynsham have been invited to a series of drop-in sessions this week to find out more about upcoming modernisation works which will pave the way for the new GWR Intercity Express Trains arriving later this year, offering more seats and more comfortable journeys for passengers.

Residents in Attenborough, Nottinghamshire, are being reminded that a drop-in session on level crossings takes place on Wednesday.

Network Rail has started work to install a footbridge over the railway near Niddry Castle in Winchburgh – the final structure to be replaced ahead of the electrification of the railway line between Edinburgh and Glasgow.  

Upgrading the railway to prepare for a new fleet of electric trains that will improve journeys for passengers is one step closer to completion today, as plans to replace Splott Road Bridge were announced.

A new accessible footbridge opening later this month over the railway in Tovil, Maidstone will make crossing the tracks safer and easier for local people and means an outdated footpath level crossing can be closed for good.

The massive construction project to reinstate the iconic Settle to Carlisle railway is getting ever closer to completion as it reaches a new milestone.

Network Rail will begin improvement work to replace equipment at Woodfield Lane level crossing in Ashtead, Surrey this month as part of plans to make the level crossing more reliable.