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The Christmas period will see strong progress made on Network Rail projects along the East Coast Main Line – part of the £160 million of railway investment nationally this festive season.

The rail industry has launched the biggest timetable change on the East Coast Main Line (ECML) in more than a decade today (Sunday 14 December), as part of a wider set of timetable changes across the network.

The rail industry is reminding passengers to plan ahead for the biggest timetable change on the East Coast Main Line (ECML) in more than a decade, as part of a wider set of timetable changes across the network, from Sunday 14 December.

Harlaxton Road bridge in Grantham has become the country’s second most struck bridge – underlining just why Network Rail has selected the structure for a high-tech trial aimed at reducing delays and costs.

Network Rail has successfully delivered a raft of engineering projects – planned in an ambitious manner to spare the public two additional weekends of disruption.

Rail passengers are being thanked for their patience after further work to progress the digital signalling upgrade took place on the East Coast Main Line.

Passengers are reminded that Darlington’s new signalling system will be brought into use this weekend – affecting passenger journeys between York and Newcastle this weekend.

A large section of the railway south of Peterborough will be closed this weekend (22 and 23 November) to allow for further testing of digital signalling, passengers are reminded.