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Rail passengers and local people in Buckinghamshire are being thanked for their patience during a ten-week project to move a section of railway between Aylesbury and Princes Risborough to make way for Britain’s new high-speed line, HS2.

Passengers are advised to factor in extra time for their journeys if they need a step-free way to change platforms while essential work to repair a damaged lift at Stoke-on-Trent station takes place.

Railway workers from the Wigan to Bolton electrification upgrades have swapped track for trowels to help out at a community garden in Hindley.

• Rail passengers are being advised to check before they travel during Storm Babet
• Disruption is possible with heavy rain and strong winds forecast until the weekend
• Residents living by the railway advised to tether down loose garden items at risk of blowing onto tracks 

Railway staff found an unusual stowaway yesterday at Euston station – a fox hiding inside the gents loos!

A hand-painted mural on a railway bridge in Birmingham has been unveiled to commemorate South Asian immigrants who fought for equal working conditions 45 years ago.

Passengers using platforms 13 and 14 at Manchester Piccadilly station will soon benefit from a revamp of the waiting area.

A special fleet of ‘leaf-busting’ trains have started blasting leaves off the line to help keep passengers and freight moving across the West Midlands, West Coast and Chiltern main lines this autumn.