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Network Rail is to spend £22m on improving drainage on the rail network across its East Coast route to help prevent major disruption brought to passengers by landslips and heavy rain, and to increase safety.

£27m is to be spent by Network Rail to improve drainage on the East Midlands’ rail network, helping to prevent major disruption brought to passengers by landslips and heavy rain.

£60m is going to be spent improving drainage on the rail network in Yorkshire and the North East to help prevent major disruption brought to passengers by landslips and heavy rain, and to increase safety.

Network Rail teams are working to reopen a level crossing in Derbyshire after it was temporarily closed for emergency work following a road traffic collision.

Upgrade work to two level crossings in Warden and Upper Denton on the Newcastle to Carlisle rail route will mean temporary closures of the crossings with diversions in place for road users and changes to train services between 21 April and 27 April.

Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) are reminding road users to plan their journey ahead of time, as Ravensthorpe Road closes for a 10-week period.

Rail services through the Huddersfield station area will be affected as engineering works are carried out from Friday 29 March to Sunday 7 April, with passengers kept on the move via diversionary routes and rail replacement buses. 

An electric train has travelled for the first time between Manchester Victoria and Stalybridge, as part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU).