Visitors to the Norfolk Show this week (Wednesday, 29 and Thursday, 30 June) took part in fun activities that showed them the dangers around the railway.

Passengers using the redeveloped Birmingham New Street are even happier with their station experience according to the latest National Rail Passenger Survey.

The refurbishment of the third and final platform at Moorfields, part of a £12m upgrade of the station, is due to be completed next month.

Passengers and residents in Gloucester will soon benefit from a safer, more reliable level crossing on Horton Road as Network Rail prepares to carry out a full renewal of the crossing’s equipment.

Plans to allow more trains to run and reduce journey times on the East Coast Main Line will be on display at four public information events being held by Network Rail in Cambridgeshire next week.

The events will focus on a project to reinstate a fourth track between Huntingdon and Woodwalton as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan to provide a bigger, better, more reliable railway for passengers and businesses.

At the start of National Badger Week this week (25 June – 2 July), Network Rail has unveiled a new way of working on major upgrade projects to protect badgers living by the railway and keep the project on track.

The railway between Manchester and Buxton has reopened less than two weeks after a landslip closed the line at Middlewood.

Network Rail and Karl M^cCartney MP were today joined by representatives from Lincoln City Council and Lincolnshire County Council to celebrate the opening of the new footbridge over the level crossing at High Street.