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Children at a school in Kings Lynn, Norfolk, took part in a presentation and quiz about railway safety yesterday (Tuesday 13 September) as part of an afternoon assembly.

Railway staff, police officers and members of the public have saved over 1,100 people in 2015/16 having intervened in potential suicide attempts on Britain’s railway.

Pictures drawn by children at a primary school in Walthamstow add a splash of colour to hoardings around the railway station at Walthamstow Queens Road, where work is taking place to electrify the railway.

Passengers in south-east London and Kent have been thanked for their patience after a planned closure of Cannon Street last week allowed for the completion of the latest major phase of the Thameslink Programme.

Passengers requiring step-free access at Ascot station are advised to allow extra time for journeys from 6 September to February 2017, as Network Rail begins work to extend all three platforms and install a new bridge with lifts to make the station fully accessible.

Passengers in Hampshire are already benefiting from Network Rail’s £6.5 million investment in a state-of-the-art ‘workshop on wheels’, which has seen a step-change in the way that the company’s orange army can maintain and repair the railway.

Passengers in Surrey are already benefiting from Network Rail’s £6.5 million investment in a state-of-the-art ‘workshop on wheels’, which has seen a step-change in the way that the company’s orange army can maintain and repair the railway.

People across Essex, Havering, Southend and Thurrock are being invited to a second round of consultation events next month to see Network Rail’s updated proposals to close or change the use of 61 level crossings across the region by altering the public Rights of Way network.