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• East Coast Main Line passengers are urged to check before they travel due to pioneering digital signalling testing this August bank holiday.
• No long-distance trains will operate between St Neots and London King's Cross from 8pm on Saturday 24 to 8am on Monday 26 August.
• It’s part of continuing work on the £1.4bn East Coast Digital Programme.

Four young artists have won the chance to have their designs displayed on construction hoardings inside Darlington station during its multi-million-pound upgrade.

A year-long project to strengthen the iconic High Level Bridge which provides a vital road and railway link over the River Tyne is now complete.

Leeds United football fans travelling by train to Wembley for the Championship play-off final are being given a hat-trick of travel tips for a winning journey.

Rail industry experts have taken to the tracks to experience an LNER journey from a customer’s
perspective as part of partnership work to improve performance.

On Thursday 2 May, Network Rail hosted five railway safety sessions at a Doncaster school using virtual reality (VR) headsets to educate young students on the dangers of trespassing on the railway.

Biggleswade’s residents and visitors now have a safer way to cross the East Coast Main Line thanks to a new bridleway bridge at Lindsells Level Crossing.

Today the first locomotive in Britain’s principal freight fleet (Class 66s) to be fitted with digital signalling equipment is moving on to dynamic testing on a test track, having successfully progressed through static testing.