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Passengers are being thanked for their patience after a 21-day closure of the West Coast Main Line through Staffordshire, Cheshire and Greater Manchester for multiple upgrades to improve future journeys for passengers and freight.

Emergency work is underway to restore the signalling system for the West Coast Main Line, causing major disruption to service across the North West, to Scotland and London Euston.

Impressive footage has been released showing a huge new railway bridge being installed over the West Coast Main Line in Greater Manchester. 

Journeys through Birmingham will be severely impacted this Bank Holiday due to essential track work and industrial action by CrossCountry.

Network Rail has completed a vital programme of stabilisation work at Little Haywood cutting, located within the Shugborough Estate and Cannock Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB), to ensure the continued safe and reliable operation of the railway for passengers and freight services.

Major sections of a replacement railway bridge which will take the West Coast Main Line over the M6 are arriving on site ahead of its complete overhaul next year.

Station safety teams are being used in the West Midlands to help resolve issues before they can delay passengers' journeys.

A 67-year-old railway bridge carrying a roundabout over the West Coast Main Line in Stockport has been successfully removed in the first week of its major £20m replacement.