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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.

CCTV at a level crossing in Worcestershire catches the moment a person walking their dog climbed through the barriers causing a train driver to apply their brakes.

All of Birmingham New Street platforms are open to passengers after rail engineers completed a 12-month project to upgrade the station’s concrete roof.

Passengers are being advised about changes to weekend trains between Birmingham New Street and Coleshill Parkway while major HS2 work takes place in the Nechells area of Birmingham.

Network Rail is supporting HS2 engineers to move a new 84-metre-long, 1,600 tonne road bridge into position on Aston Church Road.

Network Rail has thanked passengers after completing major repairs to shore up a landslip on the Chiltern main line after storms and heavy rain destabilised a railway embankment in Bicester.