Network Rail is advising passengers to plan their journeys as early as possible this Christmas. This is ahead of another huge programme of upgrade work with up to 200 projects being delivered across Britain over this holiday period.

Passengers travelling on the railway through Fareham will benefit from better, more reliable journeys from this morning thanks to a major, week-long upgrade completed on-time this weekend by Network Rail.

Passengers are urged to plan ahead and check before they travel this Christmas and New Year period as Network Rail carries out upgrades in and around London and the South East. Network Rail has also announced major improvement work taking place in August 2017 as it continues to rebuild London Bridge station as part of the Thameslink Programme.

Passengers are urged to plan ahead and check before they travel this Christmas and New Year period as Network Rail carries out upgrades in and around London and the South East. Network Rail has also announced major improvement work taking place in August 2017 as it continues to rebuild London Bridge station as part of the Thameslink Programme.

A new exit which provides direct access from platforms to the city centre has opened at Birmingham New Street station.

Network Rail has confirmed that Delny level crossing will have barriers installed by late summer 2017, with designs also commissioned with the aim of closing the crossing permanently.

Network Rail is advising passengers to plan their journeys as early as possible this Christmas. This is ahead of another huge programme of upgrade work with up to 200 projects being delivered across Britain over this holiday period.

A railway arch under a bridge in Southwark, London, has been given a dramatic makeover thanks to street artist Jimmy C and William Shakespeare.