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Network Rail is working with Northern to extend the platform at Honley station and both platforms at Shepley station in the new year. This will mean longer trains with more seats can call at both places, providing a better experience for passengers on the Penistone line.

Network Rail is urging parents in East Yorkshire to speak to their children about the dangers of playing on the railway after shocking images show two teenage girls trespassing on the tracks in Howden.

As people open their presents and sit down for Christmas dinner, hundreds of Network Rail engineers will continue work on a major project to install a dive under, a tunnel under the railway, just outside of Peterborough station as part of the East Coast Upgrade.

Over 300 Network Rail staff will be giving up their Christmases to work on a project to remodel one and a half miles of track outside of London King’s Cross station, which is a vital part of the £1.2 billion East Coast Upgrade.

Network Rail has taught pupils from Priory Lower School in Bedford how to stay safe on and around the railway and just how important it is to do so.

Network Rail will continue on a major project to improve the reliability of the railway in Newcastle this Christmas as work takes place at King Edward Bridge.

Network Rail is advising motorists in Wombwell that Hough Lane road bridge will close in the New Year as work takes place to replace it.

A new, modern platform opened yesterday (Monday, 16 December) at Gainsborough Lea Road station, to replace the old platform 2.