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Rail passengers travelling between Birmingham New Street and Lichfield Trent Valley on the Cross City line are being urged to plan their journeys over the Easter holidays while vital track and signalling work takes place.

Cheltenham Festival-goers travelling by train from Birmingham New Street are being given top tips to help them get off to a winning start for 2024.

Today (Friday 8 March) safety teams from Network Rail have been at Birmingham International station reminding passengers heading to Crufts about the importance of crossing the railway safely with their four-legged friends.

Network Rail has thanked passengers after completing major emergency repairs to the railway in Stoke Mandeville following a landslip caused by heavy rainfall.  

Yesterday (Thursday 22 February), representatives from the Railway Heritage Trust, Henley-in-Arden Parish Council, West Midlands Railway, Friends of the Shakespeare Line and Friends of Henley Railway Station joined Network Rail’s Lord Peter Hendy to open Henley-in-Arden’s newly refurbished station building.

Network Rail is working with Transport for West Midlands (TfWM) and the West Midlands Rail Executive (WMRE) to build and open Aldridge station – restoring passenger rail services to the town for the first time in 60 years. 

Passengers are being advised about major changes to weekend trains between Birmingham, Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury while Network Rail carries out work to improve the railway.