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• Network Rail, GTR and Samaritans have teamed up at Stevenage station for Brew Monday (17 January)
• Volunteers offered teabags and spoke to station users about the importance of reaching out

Engineers are spending their Christmases carrying out vital improvements to strengthen a railway bridge just south of Finsbury Park station, which carries the busy East Coast Main Line.

Around 200 Network Rail workers are spending this Christmas upgrading the points – movable pieces of track which allow trains to move from one line to the other – at Peterborough.

Network Rail’s purpose-built Rail Innovation and Development Centre (RIDC) reached a major milestone on the East Coast Digital Programme last month with the successful completion of dynamic testing of the Alstom-installed European Train Control System (ETCS) on rolling stock. The test was controlled from the ETCS National Integration Facility (ENIF).

• Upgrades to the track and signalling on London’s Northern City Line continue over Christmas
• Major work will take place on Christmas Day and Boxing Day when there are no timetabled services running
• Trains between Finsbury Park and Moorgate will divert into London King’s Cross on Monday 27 and Tuesday 28 December - passengers reminded to check their journey
• East Coast Digital Programme will boost reliability for passengers and reduce delays

The main stage of work to make Finsbury Park station fully accessible is now underway, after Jeremy Corbyn, MP for Islington North, joined Network Rail, Govia Thameslink Railway and Islington Borough Council for a ground-breaking event today (Monday 13 December).

New rail freight tunnel brings significant improvements to passenger journeys as part of the East Coast upgrade.

Passengers in the North East will soon benefit from a more modern, reliable railway as Network Rail teams are upgrading the signalling control system over Christmas.