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• Huddersfield-based railway colleague, Sheila Anderson, has made a life-saving intervention after Samaritans training with Network Rail
• With 43% of people in Yorkshire rating their small talk as ‘good’*, Samaritans are relaunching their Small Talk Saves Lives campaign
• The campaign aims to give the wider public the confidence to trust their instincts and, like Sheila, act if they see someone who needs help

• Work to reconstruct and strengthen railway bridges in central Manchester has started and will continue until Sunday 15 August
• Passengers travelling through Manchester Victoria are being urged to check their journeys at nationalrail.co.uk
• This work is part of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) which will bring faster, more reliable services to passengers travelling between Manchester and York, via Huddersfield and Leeds

Plans are progressing for a new Tram Train stop and Park & Ride in Templeborough, Rotherham.

• Work begins on a £2.1million project to repair Aire Bridge in North Yorkshire.
• The upgrade will improve reliability along a vital freight line used by Drax Power Station during nine-day closure in August, with no impact on passenger services.
• Hirst Road level crossing, between Carlton and Hirst Courtney will be closed while the bridge is repaired.
• Track will also be renewed in Hensall, near Snaith to maximise the amount of work done in one closure.

Transformational plans to revamp Sunderland’s central train station are full steam ahead, with a £26m boost that will ‘give Sunderland the rail station it deserves’.

At the end of this month, railway engineers will be making major improvements to track and railway bridges between Manchester Victoria and Stalybridge and Manchester Victoria and Rochdale.

• Rail industry colleagues have worked together to operate a charter train in aid of Martin House Children’s Hospice.
• Passengers at the event helped to raise over £50,000 for the charity so far.
• Rail industry partners have also donated prizes to be auctioned online until Friday 9 July.

• Weekend work to upgrade the track between York and Church Fenton delivered on time
• Around 450 metres of track, sleepers and ballast replaced over two days
• A lightning strike late last night caused a signalling fault affecting first trains this morning - passengers urged to check before they travel via National Rail Enquiries.