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Network Rail is advising passengers to check their journeys before travelling on Thursday morning (November 29) due to severe weather forecast across the south which will require speed limits for trains.

Network Rail achieved another key milestone on the Stirling-Dunblane-Alloa Electrification Project overnight with the first electric test train running on the route.

Work on a £2m investment to upgrade Carfin station as part of the wider electrification of the railway line through the North Lanarkshire town is nearly complete.

Glasgow Central station will host a foodbank collection on Wednesday November 28 in support of the city’s South East and South West foodbanks.

Network Rail engineers will shortly begin work on a £1.2 million investment to replace the footbridge over the railway between Arkleston Drive and Gallowhill Road in Paisley.

Network Rail is delivering a multi-million-pound programme of enhancement and maintenance projects that will affect services on the Highland main line this weekend.

Work is now underway on a six-month, £700,000 programme to renew major components on the overhead line electrification system on the Argyle line.

Charities hosting events at the Forth Bridge have benefitted to the tune of £640,000 during 2018, the largest annual sum recorded by Network Rail, the owners and operators of the Forth Bridge.