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• Rail companies in Network Rail's Central route strongly recommend people do not to travel by train on Friday.
• Railway teams worked flat out to get the Chiltern main line and Midlands rail routes moving after Storm Dudley.
• A fly-away mattress blew onto tracks near Stourbridge and gale force winds damaged a platform roof at Wolverhampton station.
• Storm Eunice is on its way and speed restrictions will be in place for trains across the entire country on Friday 18 February.

Rail passengers are being advised of changes to journeys over nine days this month while essential engineering work takes place at Water Orton in North Warwickshire and Duddeston in Birmingham.

Network Rail is thanking residents and motorists in Hadfield near Glossop after unexpected complications to essential railway bridge maintenance led to an extended road closure.

Passengers are being advised about work to replace the lift giving access to platforms 13 and 14 at Manchester Piccadilly station.

Passengers are being advised about changes to weekend journeys between Bolton and Manchester while Network Rail improves the railway this month.

Network Rail workers in Cumbria joined forces with a local farmer to keep passengers and freight trains moving on the West Coast main line.

Over 300 people sleeping rough have been helped by a pioneering partnership between housing and homelessness charity Shelter, and two of Network Rail’s largest railway stations.

Urgent repair work is being carried out on Reddish Vale viaduct in the Tame Valley to keep passengers and railway freight safely on the move.