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Edinburgh Waverley’s newly-extended platforms 5 and 6 have now entered service.

Braehead Primary School, Stirling, made its own little bit of history when Network Rail offered pupils the chance to bury a time capsule near the new Kerse Road bridge.

Network Rail achieved a key milestone on the Shotts Line electrification project on Sunday when the first electric train ran on the route.

Members of the public are invited to join a behind-the-scenes tour of Glasgow Queen Street’s new station building as construction work progresses to build a bigger and brighter transport hub for the city.

Network Rail has completed an £11m, two and a half-year project to renew and replace sections of track at 59 sites along the Far North Line in the north of Scotland.

Overhead power lines on the railway around Grangemouth freight terminal will be live from Sunday (February 10).

Residents of Carnoustie are being reminded that the first of two road closures to enable work to upgrade the level crossing on the town’s Station Road will begin on Saturday night (Feb 9).

Network Rail is set to begin a £13m, two-year renovation project on the landmark railway bridge over the River Clyde on the approach to Glasgow Central.