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Passengers are advised to check before travelling by train over the Christmas and New Year period as Network Rail carries out a major reliability upgrade that will close London Victoria to Southern and Gatwick Express services and alter services on the railway west of Brighton. 

Passengers are advised to check before travelling by train over the Christmas and New Year period as Network Rail carries out a major programme of improvements to the south east’s rail network.

• Rail industry teams up with Thomas the Tank Engine to teach children how to stay safe on the railway
• Free book is distributed in libraries, nurseries and doctor's surgeries across south London, Kent, Sussex and Surrey
• Lord Mayor of Canterbury launches book by reading to children at Choo Choo day nursery in Whitstable

Passengers, businesses and residents on the south coast are invited to have their say on proposals to transform the reliability of trains on the Brighton Main Line.

• £67million upgrade sees major work taking place to improve one of South East's least the reliable lines 
• New travel advice website to provide station-specific information to travellers on closures
• Passenger information sessions at two dozen stations over next month

New technology being rolled out across the South Western Railway route is set to give track workers an extra 1,600 hours a year to carry out vital overnight maintenance and renewal work.

A major regeneration project that will breathe new life into the area around Chatham railway station and improve links between the station, the town centre and the bus station is set to begin.

East Sussex passengers are advised to plan ahead as work to complete a major upgrade of the line between Lewes and Seaford means buses will replace trains on all routes via Lewes – including those to and from Haywards Heath– for four days in March 2019.