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Passengers planning to use train services in South Wales between April 23 and May 25 are being urged to check five days before they travel, ahead of essential modernisation work between the Severn Tunnel and Cardiff, which forms part of Network Rail’s Railway Upgrade Plan for Wales.

Network Rail will soon begin refurbishing Glamorganshire Canal bridge in Cardiff as part of its Railway Upgrade Plan. The local community is invited to a drop-in event to find out more.

Network Rail engineers will begin track upgrade work in Abergele this month as part of the £50m North Wales railway upgrade project.

Passengers in North Wales are benefitting from a newly commissioned, state of the art signalling system between Shotton and Colwyn Bay which came in to use today (Monday 26 March), as part of £50m North Wales railway upgrade project.

Green Lane road bridge reopened to motorists yesterday, Wednesday 21 March, as work continues to modernise the railway between London and Cardiff. 

The weekend of 24-25 March marks a milestone in the £50m North Wales railway upgrade project, when a state of the art signalling system between Shotton and Colwyn Bay will come into use for the first time.

Network Rail is seeking to recruit seven engineers of the future from Wales and Borders to join its hugely successful apprentice scheme from September this year.

Engineers have completed the demolition of Splott Road bridge as work to modernise the South Wales Mainline continues.