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Passengers were reminded today to allow extra time for their journeys over the next two weekends when the line between Bolton and Manchester shuts so engineers can finish work on the newly enlarged Farnworth Tunnel.

Network Rail is investing £17m to protect Cheshire’s most iconic railway bridges for decades to come.

Network Rail is inviting Carpenders Park and Bushey residents to an information event on forthcoming railway vegetation works.

Network Rail is inviting its lineside neighbours and other members of the local community in Chorley and Lostock to drop-in events this week to find out more about the work required to electrify the line between Manchester and Preston via Bolton.

Greater Manchester’s elected leaders have repeated their support for vital improvements to the railway as work on the city’s Ordsall Chord progresses.

Network Rail has confirmed that the footpath level crossing at Cofton will remain closed during 2016 while a safer solution for crossing the railway on this route is found and put in place.

Network Rail will be demolishing the second half of a railway bridge which forms part of Walsall High Street this weekend in one of the most complex moments of the Walsall to Rugeley electrification project which forms a vital part of the national Railway Upgrade Plan to bring passengers a better, more efficient railway.

As temperature are expected to reach -8 degrees Celsius in parts of Cumbria and Lancashire this weekend Network Rail’s orange army is read to deal with frozen points and other weather-related issues across the area.