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• Majority of services on routes across Scotland will be unaffected by RMT strike

• Some local services from Glasgow Central to be reduced on Christmas Eve

• No disruption expected to cross-border operations

• No impact on published Boxing Day timetable

• Morgan Sindall to build new £25m Haymarket station

• BamNuttall awarded £27m bridgeworks contract

• Carillion to deliver £3m of track alterations

• Iconic structure scaffold-free for the first time in over a decade as repair and repainting programme draws to a close

• £130m refurbishment project will mean no full-scale repainting for at least two decades

• Network Rail launching a range of new technologies and initiatives aimed at reducing the impact of extreme weather on railways

• Transport Minister visiting Network Rail and ScotRail joint control room to see how industry is planning for challenges of another severe winter

Beautiful shot of a train passing over the Tay bridge in Dundee at dusk wins Network Rail prize at the Landscape Photographer of the Year competition

• C Spencer Ltd to deliver main works as £11m* project to transform east end station gets underway

• European Regional Development Fund, SPT, Glasgow City Council and Clyde Gateway funding works ahead of Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games