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Essential work to improve future journeys for passengers and freight on a major rail route into Birmingham is complete.

A Grade II listed signal box in Cheshire has been refurbished to improve future rail journeys for passengers and freight.

Engineers are protecting the railway from very wet weather over the next four Sundays between Wolverhampton and Shrewsbury.

Urgent repairs to a Victorian railway viaduct over the River Tame in Greater Manchester have restarted after three major storms forced Network Rail engineers to down tools.

Specially trained sniffer dogs are now being used to track down metal thieves who cause major delays to passengers and freight on the West Coast main line between London Euston and Crewe.

Specially trained sniffer dogs are now being used to track down metal thieves who cause major delays to passengers and freight on the Chiltern main line and key West Midlands rail routes.

Specially trained sniffer dogs are now being used to track down metal thieves who cause major delays to passengers and freight on North West rail routes.

Rail passengers are being warned that the third major storm in just five days is set to bring further travel disruption across the North West.