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From Monday 19 to Friday 23 February, engineers on the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) worked around the clock in Morley and Dewsbury to complete key upgrades, bringing passengers one step closer to faster, greener and more reliable trains between Manchester, Huddersfield, Leeds and York. 

Network Rail engineers have completed a mammoth nine-day programme of engineering work at the UK’s only sliding canal bridge in Keadby, near Scunthorpe.

Network Rail teams are making progress in their efforts to reopen the railway line through Baildon after a landslip caused it to close in early February.

Network Rail engineers will be carrying out major upgrades to the East Coast Main Line between York and Newcastle in March, resulting in some changes to train services.

Volunteers will be at stations across Network Rail's East Midlands route for Samaritans’ Small Talk Saves Lives campaign to remind the public that small talk can be lifesaving as half the nation admit to swerving someone they don’t know to avoid small talk.

Volunteers will be at stations across Network Rail's North & East route for Samaritans’ Small Talk Saves Lives campaign to remind the public that small talk can be lifesaving as half the nation admit to swerving someone they don’t know to avoid small talk.

Volunteers will be at stations across the East Coast Main Line for Samaritans’ Small Talk Saves Lives campaign to remind the public that small talk can be lifesaving as half the nation admit to swerving someone they don’t know to avoid small talk.

For the first time since its opening in 1849, passengers are set to have a fully accessible rail station in Mossley, Greater Manchester.