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Passengers arriving at Addiewell this morning will have noticed a significant difference in their station with the removal of the old and opening of the new station footbridge.

The public are being warned that overhead power lines on the railway between Cumbernauld and Greenhill Lower junction, near Bonnybridge, will be live from Monday, March 12, and carrying 25,000 volts of electricity.

Network Rail engineers will shortly start work on a £2.7m programme of investment to improve accessibility at Kilmarnock station.

Network Rail engineers will work around-the-clock this Easter to deliver more than £23m of infrastructure improvements across Scotland’s railway.

Westerton station’s new, fully-accessible footbridge and lifts have opened to passengers, completing the multi-million-pound transformation of the East Dunbartonshire station.

Engineers have begun demolishing Consort House as redundant buildings in front of Glasgow Queen Street make way for the new-look station.

Livingston South station will undergo a £3.5m transformation when the Edinburgh Waverley-Glasgow Central line closes for 10 days this Easter as part of a £160m project to electrify the route.

Muirhead Road in Baillieston will be closed for seven months from Monday February 12 to enable a multi-million pound investment to reconstruct the bridge over the railway.