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• East Coast Main Line passengers are reminded to check before they travel due to further digital signalling testing taking place this weekend.
• No long-distance trains will operate between St Neots and London King's Cross on either Saturday 30 November or Sunday 1 December.
• It’s part of continuing work on the £1.4 billion East Coast Digital Programme.

On Friday (22 November), TRU completed a series of rail upgrades between Dewsbury and Leeds. Spanning five weeks – excluding weekends – engineers worked around the clock, whilst colleagues from TPE and Northern kept customers on the move via diversionary routes and rail replacement services. 

Almost a year to the day since work began, progress at Huddersfield station as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) continues.

People planning rail journeys in the North of England are being urged to check before they travel due to Storm Bert.

Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) is asking for the opinions of the public on its proposal to close Moorgate Halt level crossing in Uppermill, Saddleworth, and upgrade an existing public right of way as an alternative route.

New figures show a railway bridge in Grantham is among the top five most bashed by lorries in Britain.

Rail passengers are being urged to plan ahead with their journeys following a yellow weather warning for snow and ice from the Met Office in Yorkshire and the North East.

Ground-breaking digital signalling technology is now controlling every single train that commuters catch on the Great Northern route to Moorgate in the City of London.