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This World Mental Health Day (10 October 2024), Network Rail has announced a new milestone with its Rail Suicide Prevention Programme as more than 27,000 interventions have been made across Britain’s rail network.*

Network Rail and the Department for Transport have today (Friday 4 October) announced a five-point plan that aims to improve the functioning of Euston station and deliver a better passenger experience while it undergoes longer-term design changes.

• More than a thousand name suggestions have been whittled down to just four- which will get your vote in the search for a fitting name for one of Network Rail’s leaf busting trains?

• Voting is now open at www.networkrail.co.uk/stories/can-you-help-name-one-of-our-leaf-busting-trains/, closes midnight Friday 11 October

• The winning name will feature on one of Network Rail’s fleet of leaf-busting trains as they travel Britain clearing the rails to keep the railway running this autumn

• Registration is open for the biggest free wellbeing event for the rail industry, Rail Wellbeing Live (RWL)
• Dates are 5-7 November
• Over 40 pick ‘n’ mix sessions to choose from, all free to attend
• Evening sessions for night shift workers
• Register by visiting www.RWL24.co.uk

That’s the question put to Network Rail ecologist Alex Baldwin in this short film about some of the reptilian and amphibian wildlife that lives along the line.

• More than 95% of rail network open for business as normal, but some routes will be affected.

• Network Rail will be undertaking a programme of work over Christmas and New Year to improve your railway and provide better, more reliable services for passengers across Britain.

• Timetables for train services running over the festive period will start to go live from this weekend- passengers asked to plan their journeys as soon as they can. Visit National Rail Enquiries or your train operator’s website

• Railway 200 celebrations on track, as Rail Minister heralds ‘exciting opportunity’
• International festival programme unveiled, inspired by journey that changed the world
• National rail sale, largest assembly of trains and rail exhibits, UK locomotive ‘whistle-off’, and much more!