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Transport Minister Keith Brown officially opened Haymarket station’s new main building and concourse today (Thursday, December 19) as the £25m redevelopment of the facility nears completion.

Network Rail has launched a new CCTV and poster campaign today (Friday, December 13) to try to reduce the number of incidents involving people slipping or falling on station escalators.

Train services in Scotland are running again after severe winds of up to 100mph caused the network to close on Thursday morning due to safety concerns.

Due to severe weather conditions forecast for tomorrow (Thursday, December 5), train services across Scotland will be running at a reduced level.

Network Rail today published its half-year results (for the period 1 April to 30 September 2013) which revealed that £2.74bn, some £15m per day, was invested in improving and building a bigger, better railway – 33% up on the same period last year and 53% higher than just four years ago.

Glasgow Central station will unveil a new memorial stone as part of its Armistice Day service this morning (Monday, November 11).

Network Rail engineers will be carrying out extensive maintenance and track improvement works on the Highland main line between Perth and Inverness over the next four Sundays (October 13, 20, 27 and November 3).

Edinburgh’s Waverley Station will open its doors to the public this weekend, with tours of the historic railway terminal timed to correspond with the launch of a new book about the station