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Extra rail replacement buses are being laid on to ensure one of Wales’ premier food festivals is a great success this year, despite the planned closure of the railway.

• A new poll has found talking about the weather is seen as the most classic British trait for people in Wales, ahead of drinking tea and respecting ‘the queue’.   

• With autumn just around the corner and the changing seasons set to provoke even more weather chat, Network Rail is appealing to the public to help name one of its fleet of leaf-busting trains keeping Britain moving this autumn.  

• Send your name nominations to nametheleafbuster@networkrail.co.uk before Friday 20 September.  

Network Rail has moved a step closer to completing a new footbridge with lifts at Newtown station in Powys which will make both platforms fully accessible for the first time.

New figures released by Network Rail reveal that animals trespassed 246 times in the Wales & Western region in the 12 months to March 2024, ranging from sheep at one end of the scale to cats, foxes and even a solitary badger.

Network Rail is reminding people to take extra care at level crossings after an incident in North Wales where a train had to slow down when a toddler and adult were on the crossing.

A team from Wales and Borders’ ‘Railway Family’ has completed a mammoth 303-mile trek from North to South Wales, raising thousands of pounds for Samaritans Cymru in the process.

Passengers are being urged to check before they travel between South Wales and Bristol over the August Bank Holiday weekend (24-25 August) when Network Rail will be carrying out follow-up work in the Severn Tunnel.

Train services resumed today (Saturday 10 August) after nearly three weeks of round-the-clock work to help protect the Severn Estuary line from extreme weather.