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Passengers using Greater Anglia and TfL Rail services are reminded to check before they travel as ten weekends of important railway improvement works begin on Saturday, 4 February as Network Rail’s orange army continues to deliver its £250m programme to upgrade overhead wires, and Crossrail construction work takes place to prepare Shenfield station for future Transport for London (TfL) Elizabeth line services.

Rail passengers in South Cambridgeshire will soon benefit from longer trains that can carry more people as Network Rail begins work to extend platforms at three Cambridgeshire stations.

• Leeds station sales up 15% on last Christmas

• Network Rail reports 9.5% sales growth across its managed stations over the festive period

• 32% of total station users – almost 34 million people across Britain - visited a station retailer between 19 November and 24 December

Network Rail has started the next stage of its project to electrify the line between Kettering and Corby as part of its Railway Upgrade Plan.

Gates will be installed at a pedestrian level crossing at Halesworth station, Suffolk to make the crossing safer as part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan.

Network Rail and the British Transport Police (BTP) are warning pedestrians not to risk their lives at level crossings after shocking CCTV footage (available for download) emerged of two incidents of dangerous misuse at level crossings over the last month.

Network Rail and the British Transport Police have issued a second warning about the perils of level crossing misuse after more shocking behaviour on level crossings on Yorkshire’s railways.

Network Rail will carry out vital improvements to the East Coast Main Line in North Yorkshire in a £6million investment project as part of its Railway Upgrade Plan