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With Britain’s heatwave set to continue into the weekend, passengers travelling on the Brighton Main Line this Sunday are urged to consider their travel plans as engineering work will mean no trains are able to run between Three Bridges and Brighton and Three Bridges and Lewes.

Network Rail has released a compilation of deliberate misuse at Poole High Street level crossing as it was revealed that more than a third of all incidents³ at level crossings in the county happen there.

After a busy weekend of rail upgrades across the South East, all lines reopened yesterday morning ready for the rush hour.

Services resumed as normal this morning between Guildford and Haslemere after Network Rail installed a new road bridge in Compton near Guildford as part of a £2 million investment.

Young people in Christchurch are putting themselves at serious risk of being killed or seriously injured on the railway with repeated recent reports of groups jumping into the River Stour from a railway bridge.

Network Rail engineers will be out in force again this late May bank holiday, with work across the region to upgrade and repair the South East’s railway.

Rail passengers planning to travel over the forthcoming bank holiday weekend are reminded to check journeys before travelling as Network Rail replaces a bridge over the railway in Compton near Guildford, as part of the Railway Upgrade Plan.